Patents by Inventor Rebecca Jean Herr

Rebecca Jean Herr has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Self organizing industrial control system using bidding process
    Patent number: 6091998
    Abstract: An industrial control system associates an autonomous control unit with each piece of equipment in an industrial process, the autonomous control units having a model of the equipment's operation and data indicating constraints on the equipment's operation. A product to be produced is abstracted as a set of machine independent steps and performance of these steps bid upon by the autonomous control units according constraints models and internal goals. Bids having conflicting requirements may generate counterbids until a completed plan for the production of the product is generated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 1998
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2000
    Assignee: Rockwell Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: David Alan Vasko, Francisco Paul Maturana, Rebecca Jean Herr, Stephen John VandenBerg, Jeffrey Kian Chee Cheng