Patents Assigned to GE Aviation Systems, LLC
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Patent number: 11698794Abstract: A method to provide flexible access to an internal data of an regulated system, the method comprising receiving, by a data access component of the regulated system, a loadable configuration file defining a set of triggering events and a set of memory, determining the occurrence of a single triggering event, accessing at least a subset of memory that contain the internal data of the avionics system to retrieve data associated with the one or more memory of the set of memory, and outputting the retrieved data to a receiving component.Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 2020Date of Patent: July 11, 2023Assignee: GE Aviation Systems LLCInventors: Joachim Karl Ulf Hochwarth, Victor Mario Leal Herrera, Antonio Lugo Trejo, Joshua Michael Krbez
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Patent number: 11693404Abstract: Disclosed herein are embodiments for providing a trusted autonomy framework for unmanned aerial systems. One embodiment of a method includes receiving a request from an entity to participate in secure data sharing within the trusted autonomy framework for unmanned aerial systems, receiving a type of data that will be shared via the entity, and verifying an identity of the entity, a security infrastructure of the entity, and validating the data to be shared. In some embodiments, in response to verifying, accepting the entity into the trusted autonomy framework for unmanned aerial systems.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2020Date of Patent: July 4, 2023Assignee: GE Aviation Systems LLCInventors: Ken Harold Stewart, Vijay S. Malik, Michael Joseph Kuhlman
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Patent number: 11693399Abstract: A method of performing deconfliction comprises receiving a request to accept a first operational intent associated with a first unmanned aircraft system, determining whether a conflict exists between the first operational intent and one or more scheduled operational intents, and if a conflict exists between the first operational intent and a second operational intent associated with a second unmanned aircraft system, transmitting data associated with the conflict to a first operator of the first unmanned aircraft system and a second operator of the second unmanned aircraft system, and transmitting information to the first and second operator allowing them to negotiate a resolution of the conflict. If a conflict does not exist, the first operational intent may be accepted. Bids may also be received for a right to utilize a volume of airspace at a particular time and the right may be granted to a highest bidder.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2020Date of Patent: July 4, 2023Assignee: GE Aviation Systems LLCInventors: Michael Joseph Kuhlman, Anup Menon, Ray Yip Chow
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Patent number: 11689476Abstract: A method for a time sensitive network (TSN) having a network topology is disclosed. The method includes determining a set of data flow permutations corresponding to the network topology, computing a respective full schedule corresponding to each data flow permutation of the set of data flow permutations, determining a respective time to compute the full schedule for each flow permutation of the set of data flow permutations, and computing a respective partial schedule for each data flow permutation of the set of data flow permutations. The method further includes selecting a data flow permutation of the set of data flow permutations based at least in part on the respective time to compute the full schedule for the selected flow permutation, and saving the selected data flow permutation to a memory.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2022Date of Patent: June 27, 2023Assignee: GE Aviation Systems LLCInventor: Stephen Francis Bush
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Patent number: 11682947Abstract: A method and apparatus for a rotor assembly. The rotor assembly includes a rotor core having a rotatable shaft and defining at least one rotor post, a winding wound around the post that defines an end turn, and at least one coolant conduit defined in part by an end support and in a thermally conductive relationship with a portion of the winding.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2021Date of Patent: June 20, 2023Assignee: GE Aviation Systems LLCInventors: Anirban Chatterjee, Mamatha Ramakrishnaiah, Samir Dey, Mohammad Khaja Mohiddin Shaik, Balamurugan Sridharan, Rajendra Vishwanath Pawar, Xiaochuan Jia
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Patent number: 11651695Abstract: Methods, apparatus, and articles of manufacture to provide improved engine load models are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a model generator to generate an engine load model for an engine using flight information, weather information, and manifest information to predict a load on the engine from an engine subsystem utilization modeled for a flight. The example model generator is to incorporate the engine load model into an engine model, the engine model representing engine behavior for the flight. The example model generator is to determine a first measure of thrust from the engine and a second measure of fuel flow to the engine using the engine model with the engine load model, the engine load model to modify engine behavior by the predicted load on the engine from the engine subsystem utilization.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 2021Date of Patent: May 16, 2023Assignee: GE Aviation Systems, LLCInventors: David Michael Lax, Mark Darnell
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Patent number: 11640310Abstract: A processing system for an unmanned vehicle (UV) such as an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is provided. The processing system comprises a first processing unit of an integrated circuit and a second processing unit of the integrated circuit. The processing system comprises a first operating system provisioned using the first processing unit. The first operating system is configured to execute a first vehicle control process. The processing system comprises a virtualization layer configured using at least the second processing unit, and a second operating system provisioned using the virtualization layer. The second operating system is configured to execute a second vehicle control process.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2021Date of Patent: May 2, 2023Assignee: GE Aviation Systems LLCInventors: Braeton Taylor, Stefano Angelo Mario Lassini, Brent Dale Hooker
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Publication number: 20230118644Abstract: Systems and methods of planning and scheduling resources of an airline include using machine learning models to generate custom behavioral characteristics for a plurality of operational components of the airline based on operations data. The custom behavioral characteristics are used to define inputs and outcomes in simulations of the operational components of the airline. The simulation outputs performance indicators and a feedback loop captures previously ignored interactions between the operational components of the airline based on the performance indicators and custom behavioral characteristics of inputs and outcomes corresponding to the plurality of operational components of the airline.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 19, 2021Publication date: April 20, 2023Applicant: GE AVIATION SYSTEMS LLCInventors: Michael Arguello, Charles P. Ephraim, Jonathan Mark Dunsdon, Stephen Jonathan Davis, Kristin M. Schanche
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Patent number: 11620140Abstract: A configurable user interface architecture to be used in high integrity safety critical avionic systems and is adaptable to multiple cockpit displays has a protocol-agnostic layer that handles entry and display update behaviors, and a protocol-specific layer that connects the entry and display behaviors to protocol-specific input/output messages using configuration tables. The configuration tables are built using a specially designed configuration tool and the configuration table built by the tool can be embedded in the target user interface software or loaded externally into a pre-compiled application.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2019Date of Patent: April 4, 2023Assignee: GE Aviation Systems LLCInventors: Paul Tama Sokomba, James Creighton Zandee, David Allen Fairchild, Joseph Mark Downey, Timothy Jay Lindgren
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Patent number: 11619177Abstract: A combustion engine including at least one combustion chamber, a first bleed air supply fluidly coupled to a portion of the combustion engine upstream the combustion chamber, a second bleed air supply fluidly coupled to a portion of the combustion engine downstream the combustion chamber, a first thermal bus, and a turbomachine including a compressor, a rotary pump, and a first turbine, with the compressor and rotary pump in serial flow arrangement and the rotary pump being fluidly coupled to the first thermal bus.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2021Date of Patent: April 4, 2023Assignee: GE Aviation Systems LLCInventors: Kevin P. Hallisey, Dominique Patrick Sautron
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Patent number: 11614871Abstract: A system and method for flexible writing of internal data of a regulated system can include generating a flexible write instruction, providing the flexible write instruction to the regulated system, and storing or committing data changes to the regulated system outside of the normal system operations, during runtime.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 2019Date of Patent: March 28, 2023Assignee: GE Aviation Systems LLCInventors: Joachim Karl Ulf Hochwarth, Antonio Lugo Trejo, Víctor Mario Leal Herrera, Terrell Michael Brace, Christian Reynolds Decker
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Patent number: 11604462Abstract: A system-on-module (SOM) for controlling an unmanned vehicle (UV) is provided. The SOM comprises a circuit board, a first processing system in operative communication with the circuit board, and a second processing system in operative communication with the circuit board. The first processing system includes one or more first processing units and a volatile programmable logic array. The first processing system is configured to execute a first process for the UV. The second processing system includes one or more second processing units and a non-volatile programmable logic array. The second processing system is configured to monitor execution of the first process by the first processing system.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2021Date of Patent: March 14, 2023Assignee: GE AVIATION SYSTEMS LLCInventors: Stefano Angelo Mario Lassini, John Andrew Ingersoll, Ryan Daniel Gorby
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Publication number: 20230073163Abstract: Systems and methods for airspace management. One embodiment of an aerial vehicle, includes a first sensor for detecting a lateral field of view of the aerial vehicle and a vehicle computing device. The vehicle computing device may include a memory component and a processor. The memory component may store logic that, when executed by the processor, causes the aerial vehicle to calculate a detection boundary for the aerial vehicle to maintain a well clear requirement, wherein the detection boundary is based on instantaneous trajectory, planned future trajectory, and a capability of the aerial vehicle and utilize the capability of the aerial vehicle and data from the first sensor to maintain the vehicle within detection boundary. In some embodiments the logic may cause the vehicle to provide an instruction to maintain the aerial vehicle within the detection boundary.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 8, 2021Publication date: March 9, 2023Applicant: GE Aviation Systems LLCInventors: Szabolcs A. Borgyos, Adam J. Diffenderfer
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Publication number: 20230048552Abstract: A method comprises receiving a route of an aircraft, identifying a plurality of service providers to provide data services for the aircraft based on the route, receiving data from the plurality of service providers associated with the data services, transmitting the data received from the plurality of service providers to the aircraft, determining a total amount associated with all of the data services provided by the plurality of service providers, and transmitting information on the total amount associated with all of the data services provided by the plurality of service providers.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 16, 2021Publication date: February 16, 2023Applicant: GE Aviation Systems LLCInventors: Kenneth H. Stewart, Vijay S. Malik, Ray Yip Chow, Kathy Nguyen, Michael Joseph Kuhlman
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Publication number: 20230043602Abstract: A method for manufacturing a main rotor for a generator is provided. The method includes printing at least part of a rotor shaft by a three-dimensional printing process. The step of printing at least part of the rotor shaft includes printing a plurality of closed outlets and a plurality of open outlets. A rotor core is printed by the three-dimensional printing process. The step of printing the rotor core includes printing a plurality of liquid coolant conduits that extend through the rotor core and fluidly connecting the plurality of liquid coolant conduits to the plurality of closed openings.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 6, 2022Publication date: February 9, 2023Applicant: GE Aviation Systems LLCInventors: Hao Huang, James Mahle, Xiaochuan Jia
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Patent number: 11573980Abstract: A portable, hand-held computer functions as an intermediary between a database server and individual aircraft when the aircraft cannot be connected to the database server. By virtue of being portable and being locally linked (over time) to different aircraft, the intermediary computing device can provide the data upload validation and auditing for accurate billing of database usage for a flight database provided from the server. This ensures that each aircraft which receives an uploaded database is entitled to receive the upload based on a paid license. As a result, billing by the database vendor is based on usage. Licensing and data authentication is mediated by the intermediary computing device.Type: GrantFiled: December 24, 2020Date of Patent: February 7, 2023Assignee: GE Aviation Systems LLCInventors: Jeffrey M. Plantinga, Joachim K. Hochwarth, Benjamin I. Coutts, Ralph D. Boozer
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Publication number: 20230035814Abstract: An apparatus may receive first data, in a first data format, from one or more unmanned aircraft system service suppliers comprising first positions of one or more unmanned aircraft systems, receive second data, in a second data format, from one or more communications systems comprising second positions of one or more manned aircraft, transmit third data, in a third data format, comprising the first positions of the one or more unmanned aircraft systems and the second positions of the one or more manned aircraft, receive a first control signal comprising a control command associated with one or more of the unmanned aircraft systems or one or more of the manned aircraft, and transmit a second control signal comprising the control command to one or more of the unmanned aircraft system service suppliers or to one or more of the communications systems.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 5, 2022Publication date: February 2, 2023Applicant: c/o GE Aviation Systems LLCInventors: Szabolcs A. Borgyos, Edward Andrew Lester
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Patent number: 11569707Abstract: An enclosure for an electric machine includes a housing defining an axial bore having an opening at a first end of the bore. The housing comprises a first wall having a first inboard surface partially defining the bore, and a first outboard surface spaced from the first inboard surface, the first wall defining a first coolant channel disposed between the first inboard and first outboard surface. An end cap is fastenable to the housing to cover the opening.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2020Date of Patent: January 31, 2023Assignee: GE Aviation Systems LLCInventors: Arthur William Sibbach, Hao Huang
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Publication number: 20230023162Abstract: A proximity sensor comprises a reference inductor, a first set of sensor inductors, a first set of comparators, each comparator of the first set of comparators corresponding to one of the sensor inductors of the first set of sensor inductors, and an alternating current voltage source to output a sinusoidal voltage to the reference inductor and each of the sensor inductors. Each comparator of the first set of comparators receives a voltage across the reference inductor as a reference voltage and each comparator of the first set of comparators receives a voltage across a corresponding sensor inductor as an input voltage.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 22, 2021Publication date: January 26, 2023Applicant: GE Aviation Systems LLCInventor: Eric J. Hoekstra
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Patent number: 11558256Abstract: A method of automatic configuration of a communications interface of an unknown data network, the method comprising connecting an Electronic Flight Bag (EFB) to the unknown data network, attempting to open communication ports, in response to attempting to open communication ports, receiving data from the unknown data network, determining, by a controller module, if the selected communications interface can interpret the received data, and operating the communications interface of the EFB in accordance with the selected communications interface.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2020Date of Patent: January 17, 2023Assignee: GE Aviation Systems LLCInventors: Víctor Mario Leal Herrera, Joachim Karl Ulf Hochwarth, Jason Chung-Jo Ling