Inventor · Easton, MA, US

Keith Eldridge

23Patents
17h-index
16Co-inventors
74Inventor score

Filing activity: Nov 23, 1999 → Sep 10, 2014

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US7089530B1 Process control configuration system with connection validation and configuration Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 288 Expired
US7272815B1 Methods and apparatus for control configuration with versioning, security, composite blocks, edit selection, object swapping, formulaic values and other aspects Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 277 Expired
US6754885B1 Methods and apparatus for controlling object appearance in a process control configuration system Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 218 Expired
US7096465B1 Process control configuration system with parameterized objects Physics 201 Expired
US8127060B2 Methods and apparatus for control configuration with control objects that are fieldbus protocol-aware Physics 64 Active
US7890927B2 Apparatus and method for configuring and editing a control system with live data Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 63 Active
US8368640B2 Process control configuration system with connection validation and configuration Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 41 Active
US8225271B2 Apparatus for control systems with objects that are associated with live data Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 40 Active
US8229579B2 Control systems and methods with versioning Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 38 Active
US8028272B2 Control system configurator and methods with edit selection Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 38 Active
US7984420B2 Control systems and methods with composite blocks Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 37 Active
US7100165B2 Methods and systems for synchronizing processes executing on a digital data processing system Physics 32 Expired
US8060862B2 Apparatus and method for configuring a process control system having one or more digital data processors Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 28 Active
US8060222B2 Control system configurator and methods with object characteristic swapping Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 23 Active
US8028275B2 Control systems and methods with smart blocks Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 22 Active
US8122434B2 Methods and apparatus for control configuration control objects associated with a track attribute for selecting configuration information Physics 18 Active
US7468731B2 Automatic resizing of moved attribute elements on a graphical representation of a control object Physics 18 Active
US9158508B2 Strategy editor for process control supporting drag and drop connections to declarations Physics 11 Active
US8463964B2 Methods and apparatus for control configuration with enhanced change-tracking Physics 9 Active
US8056056B2 Methods and apparatus for configuring a process control system with a configuration editor executing on a digital data processing device Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 8 Active
US8850335B2 Strategy editor supporting automatic designation of displayed line style based upon a connection data type Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 5 Active
US8782599B2 Multi-mode editor for configuring process control blocks including both logical functions and arithmetic computations Physics 4 Active
US9618925B2 Multi-mode editor for configuring process control blocks including both logical functions and arithmetic computations Physics 4 Active

Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.