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ROY-G-BIV U.S. Patent (US 6,513,058) 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. 6,513,058, 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 5 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 allowing an application program to communicate with any one of a group of supported hardware devices comprising a software system operating on at least one workstation and a network communications protocol. The software system includes a control command generating module for generating control commands based on component functions of an application program, component code associated with the component functions, and the driver code associated with software drivers associated with the hardware devices. The network communication protocol allows the control commands to be communicated from the control command generating module to at least one of the supported hardware devices over the network.

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. 

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