Back to News Index

ROY-G-BIV U.S. Patent (US 6,516,236) confirmed in U.S. reexamination proceedings

Bingen, WA – June 2011 – ROY-G-BIV Corporation. The United States Patent and Trademark Office (“USPTO”) has confirmed the validity of all claims of ROY-G-BIV’s US Patent No. 6,516,236, which is directed to important elements of ROY-G-BIV’s motion control technology. During the reexamination proceeding, the USPTO reviewed over four thousand pages of alleged prior art submitted by GE-FANUC and confirmed all 10 claims without amendment. “The United States Patent & Trademark Office’s decision reflects its thorough analysis of GE-Fanuc’s enormous submission, and powerfully confirms the inventiveness of ROY-G-BIV’s patented technology,” said Richard Black, ROY-G-BIV’s lead attorney. The USPTO’s decision further enhances the value of ROY-G-BIV’s extensive patent portfolio. Richard Black, Joel Ard and Christopher Douglas (all formerly of Black, Lowe and Graham PLLC of Seattle, WA) represented ROY-G-BIV in the reexamination.  Richard Black and Joel Ard currently work for Foster Pepper PLLC of Seattle, WA.
 

Patent Abstract:

A system for motion control in which an application is developed that is independent from the actual motion control hardware used to implement the system. The system comprises a software system that employs an application programming interface comprising component functions and a service provider interface comprising driver functions. A system programmer writes an application that calls the component functions. Code associated with the component functions relates these functions to the driver functions. A hardware designer writes driver code that implements the driver functions on a given motion control hardware product. The driver functions are separated into core and extended driver functions. All software drivers implement the core driver functions, while the software drivers need not contain code for implementing the extended driver functions. If the software driver does not contain code to implement an extended driver function, the functionality of the extended driver function is obtained through a combination of core driver functions. The system programmer may also select one or more streams that allow the control commands to be communicated to, and response data to be communicated from, motion control hardware.

About ROY-G-BIV

ROY-G-BIV Corporation develops and markets the XMC® universal connectivity platform to improve visibility, utilization and performance of plant floor robotic and motion-controlled machinery. The XMC platform serves as a common, vendor-neutral interface between proprietary machines and virtually any factory or enterprise software system, facilitating access to a wealth of hard-to-reach machine operational and health data. ROY-G-BIV’s vision is to enable robotic machines and devices of all kinds for an increasingly interconnected world. ROY-G-BIV’s systems are protected by a numerous issued U.S. and foreign patents. 

For more information please contact:

Back to Top