A Penn Forest systems engineer and two co-workers received a patent for their solution to a software problem.

U.S. Patent No. 7,814,420 was issued to co-inventors Christopher A. Lunemann, Jim Thorpe; Mark W. Trush, Elkins Park; and G. Brent Gerhart, Plymouth Meeting. The recipients applied for the patent as employees of Honeywell, Inc. in Fort Washington.Chris Lunemann has been commuting to Honeywell for 16 years, most of which have been from Penn Forest where he bought land in 1994 and built a home in 1996.A native of Philadelphia, Lunemann studied engineering at Widener University in Chester, PA. Finding a greater interest in management information systems, he switched majors and graduated with a B.S. in Business Management. Lunemann is a Certified Microsoft Systems Engineer.Lunemann was working on an installation program for Honeywell's Experion Process Knowledge System. Customers were overwhelmed by a sequence of choices during the installation process, and the existing written document couldn't keep pace with the myriad of paths.Lunemann sought to adapt a software tool to solving the problem, but finding none available, he and his partners invented one-the Context Sensitive Help Information Providing Method. "In the process of resolving the problem, we felt this was patent worthy," Lunemann said. "We filed a patent."We resolved the problem and our users today are much happier for it," Lunemann noted.This is Lunemann's second patent. He received a previous patent for the invention of a Fault-Tolerant Ethernet.The invention is used to guide the installation of software for Honeywell's process control systems which are used by industrial, energy and pharmaceutical producers.