Company Filing History:
Years Active: 2006-2019
Title: Innovations by George Karl Schuster
Introduction
George Karl Schuster is a notable inventor based in Royal Oak, MI (US). He has made significant contributions to the field of industrial safety with a total of 15 patents to his name. His work focuses on enhancing safety systems in manufacturing environments, ensuring that human interactions with machines are as safe as possible.
Latest Patents
One of Schuster's latest patents is a system or process designed to detect, discriminate, aggregate, track, and rank safety-related information in a collaborative workspace. This industrial safety system implements a predictive method for detecting potential hazardous interactions between humans and machines or other dangerous entities. The system receives sensor data that indicates the locations of people and hazardous entities within the plant environment. The sensor data corresponding to each detected entity is aggregated, ranked, and weighed based on the determined reliabilities of the respective data sources. The resulting ranked and weighed location information is tracked and analyzed by the system to determine current and predicted trajectories of the detected objects. The system then analyzes these trajectories to assess the probability of future hazardous interactions between humans and hazardous entities. If a likelihood of such an interaction is identified, the system delivers a control output that places the machine in a safe state or a notification output warning of the hazard.
Another significant patent by Schuster is related to an audit trail in a programmable safety instrumented system via biometric signatures. This system utilizes biometric sensors, such as fingerprint, hand scan, and voice recognition, in manufacturing systems to maintain accurate safety audit trails. The safety audit system, which employs a biometric sensing device, determines if a user is authorized to access and change the configuration of the manufacturing system. Once a user is permitted to make changes, such as programmable electronics, tooling changes, or software updates, these changes are automatically recorded in a safety audit database. This automatic storage of configuration changes mitigates the need for manual recording, thereby enhancing the safety audit data necessary to meet safety standards for manufacturing systems.
Career Highlights
George Karl Schuster is currently employed at Rockwell Automation Technologies Incorporated, where he continues to innovate and improve safety systems. His work has had a profound impact on the manufacturing industry, particularly in enhancing safety protocols and ensuring compliance with safety standards.
Collaborations
Some of Schuster's coworkers include Derek William Jones and James Edward Dogul, who contribute to the collaborative environment at Rockwell Automation
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