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ROY-G-BIV granted new U.S. Patent (US 8,073,557)

Bingen, WA – December 6, 2011 – ROY-G-BIV Corporation further expands its world-wide patent portfolio to 42 issued patents with a newly granted patent in the United States for ‘Motion Control Systems’.  The U.S. patent (US 8,073,557) is ROY-G-BIV’s 24th issued patent in the United States.

Patent Abstract:

A motion control system comprising an application program, a plurality of motion controllers, a set of software drivers, and a motion component. Each software driver exposes a service provider interface comprising a set of driver functions. Driver code of at least one software driver associates at least one driver function with at least one control command. The motion component exposes an application programming interface comprising a set of component functions and component code associates at least one of the component functions
with at least one of the driver functions. The at least one selected software driver generates at least one control code from the motion controller language associated with the at least one selected motion controller based on the at least one component function called by the application program, the component code, and the driver code of the at least one selectable software driver.

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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