Patents by Inventor Randall Pirtle

Randall Pirtle 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: 8290802
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for predicting the reliability of a plurality of products that will be deployed during a product deployment period comprising a plurality of time intervals. The method comprises retrieving historical product removal data from a product removal data source, retrieving historical product shipment data from a product shipment data source, identifying a plurality of Weibull parameters based on at least a portion of retrieved product removal data and product shipment data, and performing a plurality of product deployment simulations, wherein each product deployment simulation includes predicting a lifespan for each of the plurality of products and determining reliability metrics for uniform time intervals during the product deployment period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2012
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Randall Pirtle, Richard Foley, Amarnath Subrahmanya, Prakash Subramonian, Sandeep Baliga, Ramji Sethu, Nitesh Lall
  • Patent number: 8266171
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus are provided for tracking the effectiveness of a modification that has been installed into a product in response to an issued modification notice. A product removal database having removal data stored therein that are associated with one or more products is periodically accessed at a user-specified periodicity. One or more user-selected fix-effectiveness algorithms are executed to determine if at least a portion of the periodically accessed removal data matches one or more user-specified keywords that correlate to the modification. If it is determined that at least a portion of the periodically accessed removal data matches the one or more user-specified keywords, then an alert is transmitted to a preset destination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2012
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Randall Pirtle, Prakash Subramonian, Nitesh Lall, Sandeep Baliga, Amarnath Subrahmanya, Somesh Subramani, Ramji Sethu, Edward Kuzia
  • Publication number: 20100318553
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus are provided for tracking the effectiveness of a modification that has been installed into a product in response to an issued modification notice. A product removal database having removal data stored therein that are associated with one or more products is periodically accessed at a user-specified periodicity. One or more user-selected fix-effectiveness algorithms are executed to determine if at least a portion of the periodically accessed removal data matches one or more user-specified keywords that correlate to the modification. If it is determined that at least a portion of the periodically accessed removal data matches the one or more user-specified keywords, then an alert is transmitted to a preset destination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2009
    Publication date: December 16, 2010
    Applicant: HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.
    Inventors: Randall Pirtle, Prakash Subramonian, Nitesh Lall, Sandeep Baliga, Amarnath Subrahmanya, Somesh Subramani, Ramji Sethu
  • Publication number: 20100198635
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for predicting the reliability of a plurality of products that will be deployed during a product deployment period comprising a plurality of time intervals. The method comprises retrieving historical product removal data from a product removal data source, retrieving historical product shipment data from a product shipment data source, identifying a plurality of Weibull parameters based on at least a portion of retrieved product removal data and product shipment data, and performing a plurality of product deployment simulations, wherein each product deployment simulation includes predicting a lifespan for each of the plurality of products and determining reliability metrics for uniform time intervals during the product deployment period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2009
    Publication date: August 5, 2010
    Applicant: HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC., Patent Services
    Inventors: Randall Pirtle, Richard Foley, Amarnath Subrahmanya, Prakash Subramonian, Sandeep Baliga, Ramji Sethu, Nitesh Lall
  • Publication number: 20100114838
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus are provided for tracking product reliability. A product removal database having removal data stored therein that are associated with one or more products is periodically accessed at a user-specified periodicity. An aircraft flight-hours database having time-in-flight data stored therein that are associated with each product is periodically accessed at the user-specified periodicity. One or more user-selected algorithms are executed, using at least a portion of the periodically accessed removal data, to determine if the criterion for a user-specified reliability parameter is met or not. If it is determined that the criterion for the user-selected reliability parameter is not met, then an alert is transmitted to a preset destination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2008
    Publication date: May 6, 2010
    Applicant: HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.
    Inventors: Randall Pirtle, Amarnath Subrahmanya, Prakash Subramonian, Sandeep Baliga, Ramji Sethu, Somesh Subramani, Nitesh Lall, Muthukumar Krithivasan, Michael Sicz, John Camp