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ROY-G-BIV’s innovations are protected by a
worldwide portfolio of patents. These patents apply well beyond the manufacturing
industry to include other motion control enterprises such as consumer devices
and healthcare automation. Geographically, the portfolio covers the United
States, Canada, Europe and Asia for general motion, computer numeric control and
robotic devices. It includes issued and pending patents covering six key
technology areas: hardware abstraction, security, networking events & messaging,
monitoring and operating devices, programmability and scripting, and
extensibility. These 6 patented technologies work together
to form a comprehensive platform for engineering integrated applications for
motion control machinery in a wide range of markets.
ROY-G-BIV's legal team is led by
Boies,
Schiller & Flexner LLP. The team also includes
Heim, Payne & Chorush of Houston, Texas,
Lubel Voyles
LLP, also of Texas,
Foster
Pepper PLLC of
Seattle, Washington, and
Schacht Law Office
of Bellingham, Washington.
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Worldwide Patent Portfolio |
Our patent portfolio includes the following issued patents:
United States
8,102,869;
8,073,557;
8,032,605;
8,027,349;
7,904,194;
7,853,645;
7,139,843;
7,137,107;
7,113,833;
7,035,697;
7,031,798;
7,024,666;
7,024,255;
6,941,543;
6,885,898;
6,879,862;
6,859,671;
6,571,141;
6,542,925;
6,516,236;
6,513,058;
6,480,896;
6,209,037;
5,867,385;
5,691,897;
Canada
CA2222235;
CA2389183;
CA2586401;
Europe
(country
codes)
EP1560093 (GB);
EP1560093 (IE);
EP1560093 (FR);
EP1560093(DE);
EP1260891 (GB);
EP1260891 (IE);
EP1260891 (FR);
DE69635094;
EP0829039 (GB);
EP0829039 (IE);
EP0829039 (FR);
DE69624237;
Asia
HK1009531;
HK1051581;
HK1080157;
All
ROY-G-BIV patent families include pending applications and are thus alive for
continuation, with more than 500 pending claims.
Many of these patents are directed to middleware architectures
for enabling hardware interoperability in motion control
systems, a common problem that many industry standards are
designed to solve. Such standards, are not limited to,
but include:
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Industrial Automation Standards |
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OPC
(OLE for Process Control) standard developed by the OPC Foundation.
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MTConnect middleware
standard being developed by the Association for Manufacturing Technologies
(AMT).
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STEP-NC
standard used to program CNC machines. |
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Consumer
Robotics Standards |
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