Patents by Inventor JESSE HERLOCKER

JESSE HERLOCKER 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: 11780482
    Abstract: Method for determining the relationship between a track-circuit current signal and a railway vehicle location, including sending, by a track circuit, a current signal across a railway track block, measuring the current signal for different railway vehicles running successively on the railway track block, thus obtaining a plurality of railway vehicle move samples, normalizing the railway vehicle move samples, initializing a reference curve, and applying a Weighted Dynamic Time Warping Barycenter Averaging algorithm to calculate a final reference curve representing the relationship between the measured track-circuit current signal and the railway vehicle location on the railway track block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: ALSTOM Transport Technologies
    Inventors: Nenad Mijatovic, Jeffrey Fries, Jesse Herlocker, Saleheh Seif, Keval Doshi
  • Patent number: 11577763
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for determining the relationship between a track-circuit current signal and a railway vehicle location, including: sending, by a track circuit, current signal across a railway track block; measuring the current signal for different railway vehicles running successively on the railway track block; aligning the measured current signals and calculating a reference curve as the average value of all the aligned curves by using a Dynamic Time Warping algorithm, this reference curve representing the relationship between the track-circuit current signal and the railway vehicle location on the railway track block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: ALSTOM TRANSPORT TECHNOLOGIES
    Inventors: Nenad Mijatovic, Jeffrey Fries, Jesse Herlocker
  • Publication number: 20220258781
    Abstract: Method for determining the relationship between a track-circuit current signal and a railway vehicle location, including sending, by a track circuit, a current signal across a railway track block, measuring the current signal for different railway vehicles running successively on the railway track block, thus obtaining a plurality of railway vehicle move samples, normalizing the railway vehicle move samples, initializing a reference curve, and applying a Weighted Dynamic Time Warping Barycenter Averaging algorithm to calculate a final reference curve representing the relationship between the measured track-circuit current signal and the railway vehicle location on the railway track block.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2021
    Publication date: August 18, 2022
    Inventors: Nenad Mijatovic, Jeffrey Fries, Jesse Herlocker, Saleheh Seif, Keval Doshi
  • Publication number: 20210276601
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for determining the relationship between a track-circuit current signal and a railway vehicle location, including: sending, by a track circuit, current signal across a railway track block; measuring the current signal for different railway vehicles running successively on the railway track block; aligning the measured current signals and calculating a reference curve as the average value of all the aligned curves by using a Dynamic Time Warping algorithm, this reference curve representing the relationship between the track-circuit current signal and the railway vehicle location on the railway track block.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2020
    Publication date: September 9, 2021
    Inventors: Nenad MIJATOVIC, Jeffrey FRIES, Jesse HERLOCKER
  • Patent number: 9751545
    Abstract: A system includes a communication module and an analysis module. The communication module is configured to be operably connectable to a wayside unit of a transportation network and to transmit a simulation message to the wayside unit. The simulation message simulates at least one of a request or command from at least one transportation network element corresponding to a wayside action to be performed by the wayside unit. The simulation message is configured to elicit a wayside message from the wayside unit upon receipt of the simulation message. The analysis module is configured to obtain the wayside message and to provide a display corresponding to the wayside message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: ALSTOM TRANSPORT TECHNOLOGIES
    Inventors: Michael Steffen, II, Jeffrey Fries, Aric Albert Weingartner, Jesse Herlocker
  • Patent number: 9150229
    Abstract: A method includes receiving an absolute time associated with movement of a vehicle system, modifying the absolute time into a relative time, and controlling one or more warning devices using the relative time. A system includes a crossing module configured to receive an absolute time associated with movement of a vehicle system. The crossing module is configured to modify the absolute time into a relative time and to control one or more warning devices using the relative time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Michael Steffen, Jesse Herlocker, Jeffrey Michael Fries
  • Publication number: 20140361126
    Abstract: A method includes receiving an absolute time associated with movement of a vehicle system, modifying the absolute time into a relative time, and controlling one or more warning devices using the relative time. A system includes a crossing module configured to receive an absolute time associated with movement of a vehicle system. The crossing module is configured to modify the absolute time into a relative time and to control one or more warning devices using the relative time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2014
    Publication date: December 11, 2014
    Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: MICHAEL STEFFEN, JESSE HERLOCKER, JEFFREY MICHAEL FRIES
  • Publication number: 20140365160
    Abstract: A system includes a communication module and an analysis module. The communication module is configured to be operably connectable to a wayside unit of a transportation network and to transmit a simulation message to the wayside unit. The simulation message simulates at least one of a request or command from at least one transportation network element corresponding to a wayside action to be performed by the wayside unit. The simulation message is configured to elicit a wayside message from the wayside unit upon receipt of the simulation message. The analysis module is configured to obtain the wayside message and to provide a display corresponding to the wayside message.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 3, 2014
    Publication date: December 11, 2014
    Applicant: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Michael STEFFEN, II, Jeffrey FRIES, Aric Albert WEINGARTNER, Jesse HERLOCKER