Samsung patents safety system that reads natural language to check factory interlocks
Samsung describes a control system that accepts natural language input to identify specific facility operations. It uses text mining to match these operations against a standard list of safety interlocks and warns users if any required safety checks are bypassed or not activated.
In the filing’s own words
A safety interlock control system includes a user interface configured to receive input data including data in a form of natural language, an interlock manager configured to perform a text mining algorithm on the input data to determine a facility operation corresponding to the input data, and to derive a list of interlocks corresponding to the determined facility operation and compare the derived list of interlocks to a predefined list of standard interlocks to warn the user of a list of bypassed selective safety interlocks that are not activated. The interlock manager includes an interlock matcher configured to match the standard interlocks to the list of selective safety interlocks corresponding to the input data, and an interlock event analyzer configured to identify whether the matched list of selective safety interlocks is activated.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. A safety interlock control system comprising: a user interface configured to receive, from a user, input data comprising data in a form of natural language and to transmit a response to the user; and an interlock manager configured to perform a text mining algorithm on the input data to derive a list of selective safety interlocks corresponding to the input data, and to transmit a warning to the user about a list of bypassed selective safety interlocks that are not activated, wherein the interlock manager comprises: an interlock matcher configured to match the list of selective safety interlocks corresponding to the input data; an interlock event analyzer configured to identify whether the matched list of selective safety interlocks is activated; and an interlock result integrator configured to transmit, to the user, the list of bypassed selective safety interlocks that are not activated, via the user interface.
Facts
- Company
- Samsung (Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.)
- Official title
- Safety Interlock Control System and Safety Interlock Control Method
- Publication number
- US20260277169A1
- Application number
- 19464301
- Filed
- Jan 29, 2026
- Published
- Sep 17, 2026
- Inventors
- 7
- Claims
- 20
Classified under
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Summaries are simplified from the filing’s own abstract and first claim. A patent filing is not a product announcement.
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