Patents by Inventor Alex TEPPER

Alex TEPPER 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).

  • Publication number: 20210133149
    Abstract: In some embodiments, a meta-data inspection data store may contain hierarchical components and subcomponents of an industrial asset and define points of interest. An industrial asset inspection platform may access that information and generate an inspection plan, including an association of at least one sensor type with each of the points of interest. The platform may then store information about the inspection plan in an inspection plan data store and receive inspection data (e.g., from a manual inspection, from an inspection robot, from a fixed sensor, etc.). A smart tagging algorithm may be executed to associate at least one point of interest with an appropriate portion of the received inspection data based on information in the inspection plan data store.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2020
    Publication date: May 6, 2021
    Inventors: Alok Gupta, John Spirtos, Robert Schwaber, Andrew Chappell, Ashish Jain, Alex Tepper
  • Patent number: 10866927
    Abstract: In some embodiments, a meta-data inspection data store may contain hierarchical components and subcomponents of an industrial asset and define points of interest. An industrial asset inspection platform may access that information and generate an inspection plan, including an association of at least one sensor type with each of the points of interest. The platform may then store information about the inspection plan in an inspection plan data store and receive inspection data (e.g., from a manual inspection, from an inspection robot, from a fixed sensor, etc.). A smart tagging algorithm may be executed to associate at least one point of interest with an appropriate portion of the received inspection data based on information in the inspection plan data store.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Alok Gupta, John Spirtos, Robert Schwaber, Andrew Chappell, Ashish Jain, Alex Tepper
  • Patent number: 10633093
    Abstract: Provided are systems and methods for monitoring an asset via an autonomous model-driven inspection. In an example, the method may include storing an inspection plan including a virtually created three-dimensional (3D) model of a travel path with respect to a virtual asset that is created in virtual space, converting the virtually created 3D model of the travel path about the virtual asset into a physical travel path about a physical asset corresponding to the virtual asset, autonomously controlling vertical and lateral movement of the unmanned robot in three dimensions with respect to the physical asset based on the physical travel path and capturing data at one or more regions of interest, and capturing data at one or more regions of interest, and storing information concerning the captured data about the asset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Mauricio Castillo-Effen, Ching-Ling Huang, Raju Venkataramana, Roberto Silva Filho, Alex Tepper, Steven Gray, Yakov Polishchuk, Viktor Holovashchenko, Charles Theurer, Yang Zhao, Ghulam Ali Baloch, Douglas Forman, Shiraj Sen, Huan Tan, Arpit Jain
  • Publication number: 20180329904
    Abstract: In some embodiments, a meta-data inspection data store may contain hierarchical components and subcomponents of an industrial asset and define points of interest. An industrial asset inspection platform may access that information and generate an inspection plan, including an association of at least one sensor type with each of the points of interest. The platform may then store information about the inspection plan in an inspection plan data store and receive inspection data (e.g., from a manual inspection, from an inspection robot, from a fixed sensor, etc.). A smart tagging algorithm may be executed to associate at least one point of interest with an appropriate portion of the received inspection data based on information in the inspection plan data store.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2017
    Publication date: November 15, 2018
    Inventors: Alok GUPTA, John SPIRTOS, Robert SCHWABER, Andrew CHAPPELL, Ashish JAIN, Alex TEPPER
  • Publication number: 20180321692
    Abstract: Provided are systems and methods for monitoring an asset via an autonomous model-driven inspection. In an example, the method may include storing an inspection plan including a virtually created three-dimensional (3D) model of a travel path with respect to a virtual asset that is created in virtual space, converting the virtually created 3D model of the travel path about the virtual asset into a physical travel path about a physical asset corresponding to the virtual asset, autonomously controlling vertical and lateral movement of the unmanned robot in three dimensions with respect to the physical asset based on the physical travel path and capturing data at one or more regions of interest, and capturing data at one or more regions of interest, and storing information concerning the captured data about the asset.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2017
    Publication date: November 8, 2018
    Inventors: Mauricio CASTILLO-EFFEN, Ching-Ling HUANG, Raju VENKATARAMANA, Roberto SILVA FILHO, Alex TEPPER, Steven GRAY, Yakov POLISHCHUK, Viktor HOLOVASHCHENKO, Charles THEURER, Yang ZHAO, Ghulam Ali BALOCH, Douglas FORMAN, Shiraj SEN, Huan TAN, Arpit JAIN