Patents by Inventor Rob Mills

Rob Mills 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).

  • Publication number: 20240094707
    Abstract: Techniques for data transmission within an industrial automation system include modeling or simulating, in accordance with a model, a plurality of devices performing one or more operations in an industrial automation system, determining, for a first operation of the one or more operations and from a plurality of categories, a category for the first operation, sending a request to the industrial automation system for data associated with the first operation at a time, wherein the data and time are determined based on the category of the first operation, receiving, from the industrial automation system, the requested data, and modifying the model based on the received data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2022
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: David C. Mazur, Rob A. Entzminger, Jonathan A. Mills, Todd A. Wiese, Bruce T. McCleave, JR., James M. Teal
  • Patent number: 11934178
    Abstract: Techniques for data transmission within an industrial automation system include modeling or simulating, in accordance with a model, a plurality of devices performing one or more operations in an industrial automation system, determining, for a first operation of the one or more operations and from a plurality of categories, a category for the first operation, sending a request to the industrial automation system for data associated with the first operation at a time, wherein the data and time are determined based on the category of the first operation, receiving, from the industrial automation system, the requested data, and modifying the model based on the received data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: David C. Mazur, Rob A. Entzminger, Jonathan A. Mills, Todd A. Wiese, Bruce T. McCleave, Jr., James M. Teal
  • Patent number: 5419307
    Abstract: A draft hood assembly and method are provided for installation of a gas fireplace insert to the flue pipe of a fireplace chimney. The insert is for connection between a gas fireplace insert and a chimney flue pipe, the gas fireplace insert having an explicitly-described structure. The draft hood assembly includes a base plate, the base plate having an aperture therein, the aperture being alignable with the exhaust opening which is provided in the upper panel of exhaust channel of the fireplace insert. A hollow superstructure is integrally-mounted on the base plate, the superstructure body being of an explicitly-described structure, but further wherein an upper front plate terminates a spaced-distance above the base plate, and the bottom plate delineates an aperture alignable with the aperture in the base plate. The hollow superstructure body also includes a lower, rear exhaust chamber defined by an explicitly-described structure, which is in gaseous communication with the firebox.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 1993
    Date of Patent: May 30, 1995
    Inventors: Dave Linkletter, Rob Mills, Sam Greenberg, Brian Drescher, Norm Crane, Phil Coby, Rob Martin