Patents

Refer to the National Instruments Web site for the most current list of patents covering this product.

The LabVIEW software is covered by one or more of the following patents:

United States Patent No(s): 4,901,221; 4,914,568; 5,291,587; 5,301,301; 5,301,336; 5,475,851; 5,481,740; 5,481,741; 5,497,500; 5,504,917; 5,583,988; 5,610,828; 5,652,909; 5,732,277; 5,734,863; 5,737,622; 5,764,546; 5,784,275; 5,821,934; 5,847,953; 5,905,649; 5,920,479; 5,974,254; 5,990,906; 6,064,812; 6,064,816; 6,102,965; 6,138,270;

Design patents: D384051; D387750; D384050; D384052

European Patent No(s).: 0242131

Japanese Patent No(s).: 3,016,783

Canadian Patent No(s).: 1285655

Various other software products may be included with this version of LabVIEW. If any software products listed below are included, they are covered by various patents as follows:

The LabVIEW Signal Processing Toolset is covered by one or more of the following patents:

U.S. Patent No(s).: 5,353,233; 6,108,609

European Patent No(s).: 0632899

Japanese Patent No(s).: 2,697,957

The LabVIEW Datalogging and Supervisory Control Module is covered by one or more of the following patents:

U.S. Patent No(s).: 5,966,532; 6,053,951

LabVIEW Real Time is covered by one or more of the following patents:

U.S. Patent No(s).: 6,173,438

The LabVIEW PID Control Toolset is covered by one or more of the following patents:

U.S. Patent No(s).: 6,081,751

The IVI Driver Toolset is covered by one or more of the following patents:

U.S. Patent No(s).: 5,963,726; 6,085,156

The NI–VISA software is covered by one or more of the following patents:

U.S. Patent No(s).: 5,724,272; 5,710,727; 5,847,955; 5,640,572; 5,771,388; 5,627,988; 5,717,614

The NI–DAQ software is covered by one or more of the following patents:

U.S. Patent No(s).: 5,619,702; 6,067,584; 6,096,094; 6,052,743; 6,148,438; 5,926,775; 5,987,530; 6,073,205

The NI–488 or NI–488.2 (NI–GPIB) software is covered by one or more of the following patents:

U.S. Patent No(s).: 5,974,541; 5,964,892; 5,958,028; 5,987,530; 6,073,205

The NI–FBUS software, including one or more of the NI–FBUS Configurator software or the NI–FBUS Monitor software, is covered by one or more of the following patents:

U.S. Patent No(s).: 5,854,890; 5,796,721; 5,850,523; 5,971,581; 6,141,596; 6,076,952; 5,978,850