Patents by Inventor Angelo Chopelas

Angelo Chopelas 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).

  • Method and system for assessing failures of fuel rods
    Patent number: 8811563
    Abstract: A system and method for assessing failure of fuel rods are disclosed. The method may include monitoring fuel rod operational conditions, comparing the fuel rod parameters to parameters limits, calculating the fuel rod performance parameters to determine the likelihood of failure of individual fuel rods, and updating plant operating parameters based on the calculated fuel rod parameters. The system may input the calculated fuel rod parameters into a fuel failure model to assess the probability of failure, and predict the probability of failure of individual fuel rods based on fuel rod parameters in the fuel failure model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2014
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Harold Yeager, Russell Stachowski, Charles McNeely, Gerald Potts, Anthony Reese, Robert Rand, Robert Schneider, Angelo Chopelas
  • Display, visualization, and processing tool for channel distortion and cell friction mitigation
    Publication number: 20070192069
    Abstract: An apparatus generating a graphical image of a core of a boiling water reactor (BWR) using at least one data set of channel deformation data including: a computer system including a display device for presenting the graphical image and a processor generating the graphical image using the at least one data set; the graphical image of the core includes symbolic representations of control blades arranged in the core, indicia identify each control blade, and indicia regarding deformation of channels adjacent each control blade, and a viewer software tool executed by the processor which accesses the at least one data set and determines a location in the core of the control blades and channels, and correlates the deformation data with the channels for display on the graphical image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2006
    Publication date: August 16, 2007
    Applicant: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Atul Karve, James Smith, John Burr, Angelo Chopelas, Gerald Potts, Mark Dubecky
  • Method and apparatus for evaluating a proposed solution to a constraint problem
    Publication number: 20060149512
    Abstract: A method of evaluating constraint functions, the evaluation being based at least in part on a channel deformation criteria.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2004
    Publication date: July 6, 2006
    Inventors: David Joseph Kropaczek, Atul Karve, Angelo Chopelas, Brian Moore