Patents by Inventor Andrew B. Carlson

Andrew B. Carlson 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: 20240119403
    Abstract: Systems and methods for retrieving and analyzing shipping data and rendering interfaces associated therewith are disclosed herein. An example method includes receiving an indication of a reference key from a user computing device, and aggregating, by utilizing one or more application programming interfaces (APIs), a set of data entity information from one or more shipping service provider devices. The set of data entity information may correspond to the reference key and include real-time data from each shipping service provider participating in logistics or transportation of an object from the set of data entity information along a transportation route. The example method may further include partitioning the data entity information into multiple workspace cards, and causing the user computing device to render a workspace graphical user interface (GUI) that includes at least one workspace card of the multiple workspace cards for access by a user of the user computing device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2023
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Inventors: Quintin C. Carlson, Michael B. Wey, Andrew Dash, Nanxin Zhao
  • Publication number: 20240085203
    Abstract: A method includes: determining, based, at least in part, on a predicted driver characteristic, a first energy-versus-distance measure for a planned driving route of a vehicle, the first energy-versus-distance measure determined using an energy model; presenting the first energy-versus-distance measure on a user interface associated with the vehicle; identifying an already-driven part of the planned driving route; determining, based on information associated with the already-driven part of the planned driving route, a model error associated with the energy model; determining a second energy-versus-distance measure by modifying the first energy-versus-distance measure to account for the model error; and presenting the second energy-versus-distance measure on the user interface associated with the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Andrew D. Baglino, Thorsten Hayer, Brennan Boblett, Matthew Fox, Vineet H. Mehta, Keijiro Ikebe, Kevin Hsieh, Craig B. Carlson, Jeffrey B. Straubel
  • Patent number: 11240938
    Abstract: A data center cooling system includes an evaporative cooling system. The evaporative cooling system includes fans configured to circulate outside air at ambient conditions through an entry zone of a data center, and atomizers positioned upstream of the entry zone configured to spray atomized water into the circulating outside air. The atomized water evaporates in an evaporation zone and cools the outside air to produce cooled air, which is directed through racks of computers positioned downstream of the evaporation zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Andrew B. Carlson, Christopher Gregory Malone, Jimmy Clidaras
  • Patent number: 11017130
    Abstract: A method of designing a data center can include determining a design power density, determining an oversubscription ratio, and determining a spatial layout of the data center using the design power density and the oversubscription ratio. The design power density can be in units of power per unit length.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Andrew B. Carlson, Jimmy Clidaras, William Hamburgen, Wolf-Dietrich Weber, Xiaobo Fan, Luiz Andre Barroso
  • Patent number: 10712031
    Abstract: A method of providing cooled air to electronic equipment includes capturing heated air from a volume containing electronic equipment, cooling the heated air by more than fifteen degrees Celsius in an air-to-water heat exchanger, and supplying cooling water to the air-to-water heat exchanger at a temperature above a dew point temperature of the heated air.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Andrew B. Carlson, William H. Whitted, Jimmy Clidaras, William Hamburgen, Gerald Aigner, Donald L. Beaty
  • Publication number: 20200037472
    Abstract: A data center cooling system includes an evaporative cooling system. The evaporative cooling system includes fans configured to circulate outside air at ambient conditions through an entry zone of a data center, and atomizers positioned upstream of the entry zone configured to spray atomized water into the circulating outside air. The atomized water evaporates in an evaporation zone and cools the outside air to produce cooled air, which is directed through racks of computers positioned downstream of the evaporation zone.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2019
    Publication date: January 30, 2020
    Inventors: Andrew B. Carlson, Christopher Gregory Malone, Jimmy Clidaras
  • Patent number: 10440861
    Abstract: A data center cooling system includes an evaporative cooling system. The evaporative cooling system includes fans configured to circulate outside air at ambient conditions through an entry zone of a data center, and atomizers positioned upstream of the entry zone configured to spray atomized water into the circulating outside air. The atomized water evaporates in an evaporation zone and cools the outside air to produce cooled air, which is directed through racks of computers positioned downstream of the evaporation zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Andrew B. Carlson, Christopher Gregory Malone, Jimmy Clidaras
  • Patent number: 10339227
    Abstract: A method of designing a data center can include determining a design power density, determining an oversubscription ratio, and determining a spatial layout of the data center using the design power density and the oversubscription ratio. The design power density can be in units of power per unit length.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Andrew B. Carlson, Jimmy Clidaras, William Hamburgen, Wolf-Dietrich Weber, Xiaobo Fan, Luiz Andre Barroso
  • Publication number: 20190056130
    Abstract: A method of providing cooled air to electronic equipment includes capturing heated air from a volume containing electronic equipment, cooling the heated air by more than fifteen degrees Celsius in an air-to-water heat exchanger, and supplying cooling water to the air-to-water heat exchanger at a temperature above a dew point temperature of the heated air.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2018
    Publication date: February 21, 2019
    Inventors: Andrew B. Carlson, William H. Whitted, Jimmy Clidaras, William Hamburgen, Gerald Aigner, Donald L. Beaty
  • Patent number: 10107510
    Abstract: A method of providing cooled air to electronic equipment includes capturing heated air from a volume containing electronic equipment, cooling the heated air by more than fifteen degrees Celsius in an air-to-water heat exchanger, and supplying cooling water to the air-to-water heat exchanger at a temperature above a dew point temperature of the heated air.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2018
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Andrew B. Carlson, William H. Whitted, Jimmy Clidaras, William Hamburgen, Gerald Aigner, Donald L. Beaty
  • Publication number: 20180224141
    Abstract: A method of providing cooled air to electronic equipment includes capturing heated air from a volume containing electronic equipment, cooling the heated air by more than fifteen degrees Celsius in an air-to-water heat exchanger, and supplying cooling water to the air-to-water heat exchanger at a temperature above a dew point temperature of the heated air.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2018
    Publication date: August 9, 2018
    Inventors: Andrew B. Carlson, William H. Whitted, Jimmy Clidaras, William Hamburgen, Gerald Aigner, Donald L. Beaty
  • Patent number: 9970670
    Abstract: A method of providing cooled air to electronic equipment includes capturing heated air from a volume containing electronic equipment, cooling the heated air by more than fifteen degrees Celsius in an air-to-water heat exchanger, and supplying cooling water to the air-to-water heat exchanger at a temperature above a dew point temperature of the heated air.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2018
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Andrew B. Carlson, William H. Whitted, Jimmy Clidaras, William Hamburgen, Gerald Aigner, Donald L. Beaty
  • Publication number: 20170071077
    Abstract: A data center cooling system includes an evaporative cooling system. The evaporative cooling system includes fans configured to circulate outside air at ambient conditions through an entry zone of a data center, and atomizers positioned upstream of the entry zone configured to spray atomized water into the circulating outside air. The atomized water evaporates in an evaporation zone and cools the outside air to produce cooled air, which is directed through racks of computers positioned downstream of the evaporation zone.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2016
    Publication date: March 9, 2017
    Inventors: Andrew B. Carlson, Christopher Gregory Malone, Jimmy Clidaras
  • Patent number: 9591792
    Abstract: A data center cooling system includes an evaporative cooling system. The evaporative cooling system includes fans configured to circulate outside air at ambient conditions through an entry zone of a data center, and atomizers positioned upstream of the entry zone configured to spray atomized water into the circulating outside air. The atomized water evaporates in an evaporation zone and cools the outside air to produce cooled air, which is directed through racks of computers positioned downstream of the evaporation zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventor: Andrew B. Carlson
  • Patent number: 9491892
    Abstract: Cooling systems for providing cooled air to electronic equipment are described. The systems can include large storage tanks or waste treatment systems to improve the efficiency of the plant and reduce impact on the environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2016
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew B. Carlson, William Hamburgen, Donald L. Beaty, Robert Wasilewski
  • Patent number: 9125327
    Abstract: A data center cooling system is disclosed. The system includes a plurality of computer racks arranged in a plurality of substantially parallel rows, cooling units associated with the computer racks and arranged in substantially parallel rows to cool air warmed by the cooling racks, and cooling fluid supply and return conduits that are divided by isolation valves into a plurality of cooling sub-loops, wherein adjacent cooling units in a common row are supplied from different sub-loops, and individual sub-loops serve cooling units in multiple rows, so as to provide water-side diversity across the cooling system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2015
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew B. Carlson, Jimmy Clidaras, William Hamburgen
  • Patent number: 9091496
    Abstract: A data center cooling system includes a data center having electronic equipment that is supported in multiple racks; a cooling fluid source; multiple cooling units in the data center, where each cooling unit is configured to cool air warmed by a sub-set of the electronic equipment in the data center; multiple control valves, including a control valve associated with a particular cooling unit of the cooling units; and a controller arranged to modulate the control valve associated with a particular cooling unit, to open or close the control valve to substantially maintain an approach temperature set point of the particular cooling unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2015
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Gregory P. Imwalle, Thomas R. Kowalski, Andrew B. Carlson
  • Patent number: 8988879
    Abstract: A datacenter cooling apparatus includes a portable housing having lifting and transporting structures for moving the apparatus, opposed sides in the housing, at least one of the opposed sides defining one or more air passage openings arranged to capture warmed air from rack-mounted electronics, opposed ends in the housing, at least one of the opposed ends defining one or more air passage openings positioned to allow lateral passage of captured air into and out of the housing, and one or more cooling coils associated with the housing to receive and cool the captured warm air, and provide the cooled air for circulation into a datacenter workspace.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2015
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: William Hamburgen, Jimmy Clidaras, Winnie Leung, David W. Stiver, Jonathan D. Beck, Andrew B. Carlson, Steven T. Y. Chow, Gregory P. Imwalle, Amir M. Michael
  • Patent number: 8974274
    Abstract: A data center cooling system includes an evaporative cooling system. The evaporative cooling system includes fans configured to circulate outside air at ambient conditions through an entry zone of a data center, and atomizers positioned upstream of the entry zone configured to spray atomized water into the circulating outside air. The atomized water evaporates in an evaporation zone and cools the outside air to produce cooled air, which is directed through racks of computers positioned downstream of the evaporation zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2015
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventor: Andrew B. Carlson
  • Patent number: 8763414
    Abstract: A data center cooling system includes a floor structure defining a below-floor warm-air plenum and an above-floor cool air plenum, a plurality of above-floor computer assemblies arranged to exhaust warmed air into the warm-air plenum, and one or more fan-coil arrangements to draw air from the warm-air plenum, cool the air, and provide the air to the cool air plenum. The volume of the above-floor cool air plenum and the below-floor warm air plenum may both be substantial so as to minimize changes in temperature from the failure of components in the system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2014
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew B. Carlson, Jimmy Clidaras, William Hamburgen