Patents by Inventor Rachel D. M. Ellerman

Rachel D. M. Ellerman 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: 11852505
    Abstract: A critical environment monitoring system including a sensor array structured to provide sensor data indicative of temperature, pressure, and humidity in an interior space, and one or more processing circuits comprising one or more memory devices coupled to one or more processors that provides a graphical user interface displaying a compliance standard temperature received from a standard setting body and a temperature value, a compliance standard pressure received from the standard setting body and a pressure value, and a compliance standard humidity received from the standard setting body and a humidity value. The processing circuit also generates an alert in response to one of the temperature value being outside the compliance standard temperature, the pressure value being outside the compliance standard pressure, or the humidity value being outside the compliance standard humidity, records criticality information, and receives a log of actions taken.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Johnson Controls Tyco IP Holdings LLP
    Inventors: Julie J. Brown, Renee R. Jacobs, Fawn R. Staerkel, Rachel D. M. Ellerman, Tyler Brown
  • Publication number: 20230349580
    Abstract: A building management system for monitoring and controlling HVAC parameters in a building includes one or more processing circuits configured to initialize a predictive model for predicting temperature, pressure, and humidity within a target area and an adjacent area of the building, receive target area data from a target area sensor array configured to measure temperature, pressure, and humidity of the target area, receive adjacent area data from an adjacent area sensor array configured to measure temperature, pressure, and humidity of the adjacent area, execute the predictive model based on the target area data and the adjacent area data to generate a prediction of future temperature, pressure, and humidity within the target area, and control operation of HVAC equipment to maintain the temperature, pressure, and humidity of the target area within a compliance standard.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2023
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Applicant: Johnson Controls Tyco IP Holdings LLP
    Inventors: Julie J. Brown, Mervyn Tremayne Drieberg, Alden R. Winters, Renee R. Jacobs, Fawn R. Staerkel, Rachel D.M. Ellerman
  • Patent number: 11783240
    Abstract: A method for mitigating risk of transmission of a contagious disease in a building. The method includes determining, by a processing circuit including one or more processors, a safety rule to be applied to a workspace including a plurality of workspace stations, the safety rule relating to limiting the transmission of the contagious disease. The method includes receiving a request for one or more reservable workspace stations, the request including one or more request parameters. The method includes identifying the one or more reservable workspace stations from among the plurality of workspace stations by determining whether to permit the one or more reservable workspace stations to be reserved based on the safety rule. The method includes generating data identifying the one or more reservable workspace stations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: JOHNSON CONTROLS TYCO IP HOLDINGS LLP
    Inventors: Matthew Leach, Edward Gerard McNamara, Rachel D. M. Ellerman
  • Patent number: 11698205
    Abstract: A building management system for monitoring and controlling HVAC parameters in a building includes one or more processing circuits configured to initialize a predictive model for predicting temperature, pressure, and humidity within a target area and an adjacent area of the building, receive target area data from a target area sensor array configured to measure temperature, pressure, and humidity of the target area, receive adjacent area data from an adjacent area sensor array configured to measure temperature, pressure, and humidity of the adjacent area, execute the predictive model based on the target area data and the adjacent area data to generate a prediction of future temperature, pressure, and humidity within the target area, and control operation of HVAC equipment to maintain the temperature, pressure, and humidity of the target area within a compliance standard.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: Johnson Controls Tyco IP Holdings LLP
    Inventors: Julie J. Brown, Mervyn Tremayne Drieberg, Alden R. Winters, Renee R. Jacobs, Fawn R. Staerkel, Rachel D. M. Ellerman
  • Publication number: 20230152760
    Abstract: A building system of a building including one or more memory devices storing instructions thereon that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to receive water usage data from one or more network connected water valves, the water usage data indicating water usage by one or more occupants within the building. The instructions cause the one or more processors to derive one or more health metrics indicating physical health of the one or more occupants based on the water usage data and cause one or more pieces of building equipment to perform one or more operations based on values of the one or more health metrics, the one or more operations improving the physical health of the one or more occupants.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2021
    Publication date: May 18, 2023
    Inventors: Jonathan D. Douglas, Terrill R. Laughton, Rachel D. M. Ellerman, Kirk H. Drees
  • Publication number: 20220341609
    Abstract: Systems and methods for providing visualization of health risks within a building. Health risk levels for building spaces are determined using occupancy data and health risk data relating to a risk of contracting or spreading an infectious disease. A visualization of the health risk levels is generated and presented on a user interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2022
    Publication date: October 27, 2022
    Applicant: Johnson Controls Tyco IP Holdings LLP
    Inventors: Ger MCNAMARA, Donald R. ALBINGER, Rachel D. M. ELLERMAN, Kirk H. DREES, Vineet SINHA
  • Publication number: 20220309849
    Abstract: A method for providing access to a building for a user is shown. The method includes determining a capacity restraint for the building, the capacity restraint including a maximum number of occupants allowed within the building. The method includes receiving a request to reserve a space in the building from the user. The method includes determining whether to grant the request based on the capacity restraint and current reservations within the building. The method includes, responsive to determining to grant the request, automatically providing credentials to at least one of an access control system of the building or a device of the user, the credentials configured to cause the access control system to grant access to the user in accordance with one or more parameters of the reservation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2021
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Inventors: Rachel D. M. Ellerman, Vikas Sharma, Sourabh Taranath Joshi, Ketan Pandhare
  • Patent number: 11367534
    Abstract: A building system of a building, the building system including one or more memory devices configured to store instructions thereon that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to receive occupancy data of occupants from an occupant tracking system, the occupancy data indicating locations of the occupants within a building space of the building. The instructions cause the one or more processors to determine, based on the occupancy data, whether one or more occupants of the occupants have violated a social distancing policy that reduces a spread of an infectious disease within the building based on the locations of at least two of the occupants, the social distancing policy based on one or more characteristics of the building space and perform one or more operations to improve compliance with the social distancing policy within the building.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: Johnson Controls Tyco IP Holdings LLP
    Inventors: Edward Gerard Mc Namara, James Callanan, Tim Murphy, Robert Artur Dubisz, Matthew Breed Myung-Sun Scott, Amit Kumar, Sarah O'Connell, Rachel D. M. Ellerman, Vikas Sharma, Sourabh Taranath Joshi, Akshay Chavan
  • Publication number: 20220067851
    Abstract: A building system including one or more memory devices that store instructions thereon, that, when executed by one or more processors, generate a user interface including user interface elements, wherein a first user interface element of user interface elements is associated with a first category and includes one or more first recommendations that are associated with the first category and one or more first selection fields allowing a user to select recommendations for implementation from among the one or more first recommendations and a second user interface element of the user interface elements is associated with a second category and includes one or more second recommendations that are associated with the second category.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2021
    Publication date: March 3, 2022
    Applicant: Johnson Controls Tyco IP Holdings LLP
    Inventors: Vineet Binodshanker Sinha, Corey A. Poquette, Rachel D. M. Ellerman, Rajesh Nayak, Alan S. Schwegler
  • Publication number: 20220036258
    Abstract: A method for mitigating risk of transmission of a contagious disease in a building. The method includes determining, by a processing circuit including one or more processors, a safety rule to be applied to a workspace including a plurality of workspace stations, the safety rule relating to limiting the transmission of the contagious disease. The method includes receiving a request for one or more reservable workspace stations, the request including one or more request parameters. The method includes identifying the one or more reservable workspace stations from among the plurality of workspace stations by determining whether to permit the one or more reservable workspace stations to be reserved based on the safety rule. The method includes generating data identifying the one or more reservable workspace stations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2021
    Publication date: February 3, 2022
    Inventors: Matthew Leach, Edward Gerard McNamara, Rachel D. M. Ellerman
  • Publication number: 20220036713
    Abstract: A method includes receiving, by one or more processing circuits, risk data indicative of at least one of behavior of the users relating to the shared space or a user risk relating to a risk of one or more of the users contracting or spreading a disease, determining, by the one or more processing circuits, an accessibility limit for the shared space based on the risk data, the accessibility limit comprising at least one of an occupancy limit for the shared space or a timeframe during which the shared space is prohibited from occupancy, and generating, by the one or more processing circuits, an indicator of the accessibility limit for the shared space, the indicator providing an indication to the users of at least one of the occupancy limit or the timeframe during which the shared space is prohibited from occupancy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2021
    Publication date: February 3, 2022
    Applicant: Johnson Controls Tyco IP Holdings LLP
    Inventors: Ronan Fineen Hennessy, Róisín Ann O'Brien, Eamonn Jerry O'Toole, Rachel D.M. Ellerman
  • Publication number: 20210381861
    Abstract: A critical environment monitoring system including a sensor array structured to provide sensor data indicative of temperature, pressure, and humidity in an interior space, and one or more processing circuits comprising one or more memory devices coupled to one or more processors that provides a graphical user interface displaying a compliance standard temperature received from a standard setting body and a temperature value, a compliance standard pressure received from the standard setting body and a pressure value, and a compliance standard humidity received from the standard setting body and a humidity value. The processing circuit also generates an alert in response to one of the temperature value being outside the compliance standard temperature, the pressure value being outside the compliance standard pressure, or the humidity value being outside the compliance standard humidity, records criticality information, and receives a log of actions taken.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2021
    Publication date: December 9, 2021
    Inventors: Julie J. Brown, Renee R. Jacobs, Fawn R. Staerkel, Rachel D. M. Ellerman, Tyler Brown
  • Publication number: 20210313075
    Abstract: A building system of a building, the building system including one or more memory devices configured to store instructions thereon that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to receive occupancy data of occupants from an occupant tracking system, the occupancy data indicating locations of the occupants within a building space of the building. The instructions cause the one or more processors to determine, based on the occupancy data, whether one or more occupants of the occupants have violated a social distancing policy that reduces a spread of an infectious disease within the building based on the locations of at least two of the occupants, the social distancing policy based on one or more characteristics of the building space and perform one or more operations to improve compliance with the social distancing policy within the building.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2021
    Publication date: October 7, 2021
    Applicant: Johnson Controls Technology Company
    Inventors: Edward Gerard Mc Namara, James Callanan, Tim Murphy, Robert Artur Dubisz, Matthew Breed Myung-Sun Scott, Amit Kumar, Sarah O'Connell, Rachel D. M. Ellerman, Vikas Sharma, Sourabh Taranath Joshi, Akshay Chavan
  • Publication number: 20210080139
    Abstract: A building management system (BMS) for heating, ventilation, or air conditioning (HVAC) parameters in a building. The BMS includes one or more processing circuits including one or more memory devices coupled to one or more processors. The one or more processors query a training data storage and receive training data, institute a policy with a machine learning engine and train the policy using the training data, receive temperature, pressure, and humidity (TPH) sensor data from one or more sensors, determine a fault based on the TPH sensor data, provide the TPH sensor data and the fault to the policy of the machine learning engine and output a corrective action to resolve the fault, and generate a work order for a user based on the TPH sensor data, the determined fault and the corrective action.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2020
    Publication date: March 18, 2021
    Inventors: Julie Joanne Brown, Renee R. Jacobs, Victoria M. Toner, Rachel D. M. Ellerman, Caroline T. Moore
  • Publication number: 20210081811
    Abstract: A building management system (BMS) includes a sensor array structured to provide sensor data indicative of temperature, pressure, and humidity in an interior space, and one or more processing circuits configured to execute stored instructions to receive the sensor data from the sensor array, generate, based on the sensor data, trend data indicative of the temperature, pressure, and humidity of the interior space over a period of time, generate, based on the trend data, a prediction of future trend data for the interior space, compare the sensor data and the prediction to a compliance standard, and initiate an automated response process in response to a determining that at least one of the sensor data or the prediction does not meet the compliance standard.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2020
    Publication date: March 18, 2021
    Inventors: Julie J. Brown, Renee R. Jacobs, Fawn R. Staerkel, Rachel D.M. Ellerman, Tyler Brown
  • Publication number: 20210080143
    Abstract: A building management system for monitoring and controlling HVAC parameters in a building includes one or more processing circuits configured to initialize a predictive model for predicting temperature, pressure, and humidity within a target area and an adjacent area of the building, receive target area data from a target area sensor array configured to measure temperature, pressure, and humidity of the target area, receive adjacent area data from an adjacent area sensor array configured to measure temperature, pressure, and humidity of the adjacent area, execute the predictive model based on the target area data and the adjacent area data to generate a prediction of future temperature, pressure, and humidity within the target area, and control operation of HVAC equipment to maintain the temperature, pressure, and humidity of the target area within a compliance standard.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2020
    Publication date: March 18, 2021
    Inventors: Julie J. Brown, Mervyn Tremayne Drieberg, Alden R. Winters, Renee R. Jacobs, Fawn R. Staerkel, Rachel D.M. Ellerman
  • Publication number: 20210011443
    Abstract: Systems and methods for providing visualization of health risks within a building. Health risk levels for building spaces are determined using occupancy data and health risk data relating to a risk of contracting or spreading an infectious disease. A visualization of the health risk levels is generated and presented on a user interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2020
    Publication date: January 14, 2021
    Inventors: Ger MCNAMARA, Donald R. ALBINGER, Rachel D. M. ELLERMAN, Kirk H. DREES, Vineet SINHA
  • Patent number: 10599115
    Abstract: A building management system includes a plurality of devices of building equipment and a controller configured to associate a space with a first group of devices that serve the space. The controller is also configured to select a space profile from a plurality of selectable space profiles. At least two of the space profiles are associated with a different type of space serving a different function. The space profile includes a plurality of job profiles. Each job profile includes a space use case profile that identifies how to accomplish at least a part of the job associated with the job profile. The controller is also configured to select the space use case profile and control at least some of the first group of devices in accordance with the space use case profile to execute a space use case that accomplishes at least the part of the job associated with the job profile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: Johnson Controls Technology Company
    Inventors: Sheri L. Meyer, Beth A. Ray, Radu M. Dorneanu, Rachel D. M. Ellerman
  • Patent number: 10295964
    Abstract: A building management system includes a plurality of devices of building equipment and a control engine configured to, for at least one space of one or more spaces, associate the space with a group of the plurality of devices. The control engine is also configured to select a first space profile of a plurality of space profiles associated with a first type of space. The first space profile includes a plurality of modes each corresponding to a different functional state of the space. The control engine is also configured to select a mode of the plurality of modes of the first space profile, determine a setting of the set of settings of the first space profile based on the selected mode, and control the one or more devices that serve the space in accordance with the settings defined by the first space profile and the selected mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: Johnson Controls Technology Company
    Inventors: Beth A. Ray, Sheri L. Meyer, Radu M. Dorneanu, Gregory B. Cebasek, Donald A. Gottschalk, Rachel D. M. Ellerman
  • Publication number: 20190079471
    Abstract: A building management system includes a plurality of devices of building equipment and a control engine configured to, for at least one space of one or more spaces, associate the space with a group of the plurality of devices. The control engine is also configured to select a first space profile of a plurality of space profiles associated with a first type of space. The first space profile includes a plurality of modes each corresponding to a different functional state of the space. The control engine is also configured to select a mode of the plurality of modes of the first space profile, determine a setting of the set of settings of the first space profile based on the selected mode, and control the one or more devices that serve the space in accordance with the settings defined by the first space profile and the selected mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2018
    Publication date: March 14, 2019
    Applicant: Johnson Controls Technology Company
    Inventors: Beth A. Ray, Sheri L. Meyer, Radu M. Dorneanu, Gregory B. Cebasek, Donald A. Gottschalk, Rachel D.M. Ellerman