Patents by Inventor Brett G. Amidan

Brett G. Amidan has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 7206674
    Abstract: Method and system for displaying information on one or more aircraft flights, where at least one flight is determined to have at least one atypical flight phase according to specified criteria. A flight parameter trace for an atypical phase is displayed and compared graphically with a group of traces, for the corresponding flight phase and corresponding flight parameter, for flights that do not manifest atypicality in that phase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2007
    Assignee: United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
    Inventors: Irving C. Statler, Thomas A. Ferryman, Brett G. Amidan, Paul D. Whitney, Amanda M. White, Alan R. Willse, Scott K. Cooley, Joseph Griffith Jay, Robert E. Lawrence, Chris J. Mosbrucker, Loren J. Rosenthal, Robert E. Lynch, Thomas R. Chidester, Gary L. Prothero, Adi Andrei, Timothy P. Romanowski, Daniel E. Robin, Jason W. Prothero
  • Patent number: 7161501
    Abstract: Method and system for analyzing and displaying one or more present flight parameter values FP(t) of an aircraft in motion at a measurement time tn, and for comparing the present flight parameter value with a selected percentage band, containing historical flight parameter data for similar conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2007
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration
    Inventors: Robert E. Lynch, Robert E. Lawrence, Thomas R. Chidester, Brett G. Amidan, Gary L. Prothero, Timothy P. Romanowski
  • Patent number: 7075457
    Abstract: Method and system for analyzing, separately or in combination, kinetic energy and potential energy and/or their time derivatives, measured or estimated or computed, for an aircraft in approach phase or in takeoff phase, to determine if the aircraft is or will be put in an anomalous configuration in order to join a stable approach path or takeoff path. A reference value of kinetic energy and/or potential energy (or time derivatives thereof) is provided, and a comparison index for the estimated energy and reference energy is computed and compared with a normal range of index values for a corresponding aircraft maneuver. If the computed energy index lies outside the normal index range, this phase of the aircraft is identified as anomalous, non-normal or potentially unstable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2006
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
    Inventors: Thomas R. Chidester, Robert E. Lynch, Robert E. Lawrence, Brett G. Amidan, Thomas A. Ferryman, Douglas A. Drew, Robert J. Ainsworth, Gary L. Prothero, Timothy P. Romanowski, Laurent Bloch, William L. Craine, Vincent J. Zaccardi
  • Patent number: 6937924
    Abstract: Method and system for analyzing aircraft data, including multiple selected flight parameters for a selected phase of a selected flight, and for determining when the selected phase of the selected flight is atypical, when compared with corresponding data for the same phase for other similar flights. A flight signature is computed using continuous-valued and discrete-valued flight parameters for the selected flight parameters and is optionally compared with a statistical distribution of other observed flight signatures, yielding atypicality scores for the same phase for other similar flights. A cluster analysis is optionally applied to the flight signatures to define an optimal collection of clusters. A level of atypicality for a selected flight is estimated, based upon an index associated with the cluster analysis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2005
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration
    Inventors: Irving C. Statler, Thomas A. Ferryman, Brett G. Amidan, Paul D. Whitney, Amanda M. White, Alan R. Willse, Scott K. Cooley, Joseph Griffith Jay, Robert E. Lawrence, Chris Mosbrucker, Loren J. Rosenthal, Robert E. Lynch, Thomas R. Chidester, Gary L. Prothero, Adi L. Andrei, Timothy P. Romanowski, Daniel E. Robin, Jason W. Prothero