Patents by Inventor Brian Silva
Brian Silva 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).
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Publication number: 20240272630Abstract: Computing systems and methods for determining aggregated risk are disclosed herein. An exemplary computing platform includes: a communication interface, one or more processors, a non-transitory computer-readable medium, and program instructions stored on the non-transitory computer-readable medium. The program instructions, when executed, cause the computing platform to: execute a set of predictive models that are each configured to (i) evaluate operating data for the asset and (ii) output a respective prediction related to an operation of the asset; detect a triggering event for determining an aggregated risk value for the asset; identify (i) a set of predictions related to the operation of the asset and (ii) a risk dataset; determine the aggregated risk value of the asset based on the set of predictions and the risk dataset; and cause a client device to display a visual representation of the aggregated risk value.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 9, 2023Publication date: August 15, 2024Inventors: Sam Waterbury, Brian Silva
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Patent number: 11988379Abstract: Aspects and features of a burner for a cooking appliance include a first plate defining flame ports arranged in flow-sharing groups around a periphery of a combustion surface and a second plate coextensive with the first plate. Each plate is contoured so that the plates define an annular void within the burner. The annular void is fluidly coupled to the flame ports. In some aspects, each flow-sharing group includes clusters of flame ports, with each cluster including flame ports of two different diameters. The plates can each be made using the same tool such as a die, stamp, or mold, and the burner can be sized and installed in a cooking appliance so that it extends to cover a large portion of a wall of the cooking cavity of the appliance.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2020Date of Patent: May 21, 2024Assignees: BSH Home Appliances Corporation, BSH Hausgeräte GmbHInventors: Charles Hanna, Brian Silva, Tyson White
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Patent number: 11497341Abstract: A gas cooktop may include: a gas burner; a sensor configured to sense temperature of a cooking container heated by the gas burner; a valve configured to control flow rate of gas from a gas source to the gas burner; and a control system including circuitry. The control system may start operation of the gas burner; receive sensor signals from the sensor indicating the temperature of the cooking container; and based on received sensor signals representing the sensed temperature of the cooking container and a cooking profile indicating one or more durations and one or more temperatures, control the valve to change the gas flow rate to the gas burner.Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 2019Date of Patent: November 15, 2022Assignees: BSH Home Appliances Corporation, BSH Hausgeräte GmbHInventors: Garrett Bentley, Humberto Delgado, Brian Silva, David Sumner, Tyson White
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Publication number: 20220276216Abstract: Methods and systems are described for evaluating the level of organic contaminants in water, and in particular water that is used as boiler feedwater in food processing facilities such as sugar factories. The method includes measuring at least one parameter of the water including pH, conductivity, and/or total organic carbon, and, based on the measured values, determining whether corrective action needs to be taken to reduce the levels of organic contaminants.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 17, 2022Publication date: September 1, 2022Applicant: CHEMTREAT, INC.Inventors: Megan PETTYGROVE, Mark PUCHOVICH, James WILKINS, Benjamin NIEMASECK, William HENDERSON, Brian SILVA
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Publication number: 20220100595Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems, devices, and methods related to assets and asset operating conditions. In particular, examples involve determining health metrics that estimate the operating health of an asset or a part thereof, determining recommended operating modes for assets, analyzing health metrics to determine variables that are associated with high health metrics, and modifying the handling of operating conditions that normally result in triggering of abnormal-condition indicators, among other examples.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 11, 2021Publication date: March 31, 2022Inventors: Stephanie Shapiro, Brian Silva
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Publication number: 20210388980Abstract: Aspects and features of a burner for a cooking appliance include a first plate defining flame ports arranged in flow-sharing groups around a periphery of a combustion surface and a second plate coextensive with the first plate. Each plate is contoured so that the plates define an annular void within the burner. The annular void is fluidly coupled to the flame ports. In some aspects, each flow-sharing group includes clusters of flame ports, with each cluster including flame ports of two different diameters. The plates can each be made using the same tool such as a die, stamp, or mold, and the burner can be sized and installed in a cooking appliance so that it extends to cover a large portion of a wall of the cooking cavity of the appliance.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 12, 2020Publication date: December 16, 2021Inventors: Charles Hanna, Brian Silva, Tyson White
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Patent number: 11144378Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems, devices, and methods related to assets and asset operating conditions. In particular, examples involve determining health metrics that estimate the operating health of an asset or a part thereof, determining recommended operating modes for assets, analyzing health metrics to determine variables that are associated with high health metrics, and modifying the handling of operating conditions that normally result in triggering of abnormal-condition indicators, among other examples.Type: GrantFiled: September 7, 2018Date of Patent: October 12, 2021Assignee: Uptake Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Stephanie Shapiro, Brian Silva
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Patent number: 11035574Abstract: Gas cooktops disclosed herein may include a proportional solenoid valve controlling gas flow to a gas burner, where the proportional solenoid valve has a continuously variable range of positions. A user interface (UI) element associated with the proportional solenoid valve may be utilized to control a linear voltage regulator having a continuously variable output voltage. The output voltage of the linear voltage regulator is coupled to a solenoid of the proportional solenoid valve, such that the gas flow to the gas burner has a linear relationship with the output voltage of the linear voltage regulator.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2019Date of Patent: June 15, 2021Assignees: BSH Home Appliances Corporation, BSH Hausgeräte GmbHInventors: Humberto Delgado, Brian Silva, Tyson White
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Publication number: 20210100393Abstract: A gas cooktop may include: a gas burner; a sensor configured to sense temperature of a cooking container heated by the gas burner; a valve configured to control flow rate of gas from a gas source to the gas burner; and a control system including circuitry. The control system may start operation of the gas burner; receive sensor signals from the sensor indicating the temperature of the cooking container; and based on received sensor signals representing the sensed temperature of the cooking container and a cooking profile indicating one or more durations and one or more temperatures, control the valve to change the gas flow rate to the gas burner.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 3, 2019Publication date: April 8, 2021Inventors: Garrett Bentley, Humberto Delgado, Brian Silva, David Sumner, Tyson White
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Patent number: 10948196Abstract: A cooking appliance is provided, including a cooktop floor and a removable cooking vessel support system on the cooktop floor. The cooking vessel support system includes a support frame configured to support a cooking vessel above a gas burner, the support frame having at least a first arm supporting the gas burner above and spaced apart from the cooktop floor. The support frame includes an internal passageway in fluid communication with the gas burner and configured to draw primary air into the support frame at a location above the cooktop floor and to mix the primary air with an injected gas to provide an air-gas mixture. At least a portion of the internal passageway is formed in the first arm of the support frame such that the air-gas mixture is guided by the internal passageway through the first arm to the gas burner.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2019Date of Patent: March 16, 2021Assignees: BSH Home Appliances Corporation, BSH Hausgeräte GmbHInventors: Andy Mok, Brian Silva, Tyson White
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Patent number: 10948181Abstract: A cooking appliance is provided, including a multi-level gas burner with a body having a lower burner section on a lower side and an upper burner section on an upper side. The lower burner section is separated from the upper burner section. The lower side of the body has a first injection point for receiving a first air-gas mixture for the lower burner section and a second injection point for receiving a second air-gas mixture for the upper burner section. The first injection point is partitioned from the second injection point thereby separating the first air-gas mixture from the second air-gas mixture. The body includes a passageway fluidly connecting the second injection point on the lower side of the body to the upper burner section on the upper side of the body.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2019Date of Patent: March 16, 2021Assignees: BSH Home Appliances Corporation, BSH Hausgeräte GmbHInventors: Benjamin Knight, Brian Silva, Tyson White
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Publication number: 20210012263Abstract: A computing system may define a predictive model that is configured to receive, for a given set of data variables, data values that are related to operation of an asset during an observation period, and based on the received data values, output a prediction of fuel consumption of the asset during the observation period, where the given set of data variables may include data variables from different categories of data variables. The computing system may then obtain a dataset that includes, for the given set of data variables, data values that are related to operation of a given asset during a given observation period, apply the predictive model to the obtained dataset, and perform an evaluation of whether any data variable in the given set of data variables presented a fuel savings opportunity for the given asset during the given observation period.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 8, 2019Publication date: January 14, 2021Inventors: Weiyu Max Li, Stephanie Kirmer, Brian Silva
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Publication number: 20200370747Abstract: A cooking appliance is provided, including a multi-level gas burner with a body having a lower burner section on a lower side and an upper burner section on an upper side. The lower burner section is separated from the upper burner section. The lower side of the body has a first injection point for receiving a first air-gas mixture for the lower burner section and a second injection point for receiving a second air-gas mixture for the upper burner section. The first injection point is partitioned from the second injection point thereby separating the first air-gas mixture from the second air-gas mixture. The body includes a passageway fluidly connecting the second injection point on the lower side of the body to the upper burner section on the upper side of the body.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 22, 2019Publication date: November 26, 2020Inventors: Benjamin Knight, Brian Silva, Tyson White
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Publication number: 20200370754Abstract: Gas cooktops disclosed herein may include a proportional solenoid valve controlling gas flow to a gas burner, where the proportional solenoid valve has a continuously variable range of positions. A user interface (UI) element associated with the proportional solenoid valve may be utilized to control a linear voltage regulator having a continuously variable output voltage. The output voltage of the linear voltage regulator is coupled to a solenoid of the proportional solenoid valve, such that the gas flow to the gas burner has a linear relationship with the output voltage of the linear voltage regulator.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 20, 2019Publication date: November 26, 2020Inventors: Humberto Delgado, Brian Silva, Tyson White
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Publication number: 20200370757Abstract: A cooking appliance is provided, including a cooktop floor and a removable cooking vessel support system on the cooktop floor. The cooking vessel support system includes a support frame configured to support a cooking vessel above a gas burner, the support frame having at least a first arm supporting the gas burner above and spaced apart from the cooktop floor. The support frame includes an internal passageway in fluid communication with the gas burner and configured to draw primary air into the support frame at a location above the cooktop floor and to mix the primary air with an injected gas to provide an air-gas mixture. At least a portion of the internal passageway is formed in the first arm of the support frame such that the air-gas mixture is guided by the internal passageway through the first arm to the gas burner.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 24, 2019Publication date: November 26, 2020Inventors: Andy Mok, Brian Silva, Tyson White
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Publication number: 20200340675Abstract: Improvements for a gas burner bar are provided utilizing reduced parts, easier assembly, and greater reliability. In one or more implementations a portion of an air shutter is disposed between two parts of an injector assembly: an injector and an injector fitting. Assembly in this manner results in proper alignment of the injector assembly thus negating problems that arise with misalignment.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 25, 2019Publication date: October 29, 2020Inventors: Chris Corbin, Daniel Davison, Timothy Russell, Brian Silva, Tyson White
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Publication number: 20200278273Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems, devices, and methods related to assets and asset operating conditions. In particular, examples involve determining health metrics that estimate the operating health of an asset or a part thereof, determining recommended operating modes for assets, analyzing health metrics to determine variables that are associated with high health metrics, and modifying the handling of operating conditions that normally result in triggering of abnormal-condition indicators, among other examples.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 7, 2018Publication date: September 3, 2020Inventors: Stephanie Shapiro, Brian Silva
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Publication number: 20200182460Abstract: A home cooking appliance includes a gas surface cooking unit and a gas cooktop fire prevention system. The gas surface cooking unit includes a gas burner, a support surface configured to support a cooking vessel above the gas burner, a cooktop floor below the gas burner, and a gas supply line supplying gas to the gas burner. The gas cooktop fire prevention system includes a solenoid valve on the gas supply line and a gas supply cutoff unit configured to detect a temperature of the cooktop floor and close the solenoid valve when the detected temperature of the cooktop floor is equal to or greater than a predetermined threshold temperature of the cooktop floor, thereby cutting off a supply of the gas through the gas supply line to the gas burner.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 10, 2018Publication date: June 11, 2020Inventors: Garrett Bentley, Brian Silva
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Publication number: 20190087256Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems, devices, and methods related to assets and asset operating conditions. In particular, examples involve defining and using a predictive model that is configured to output an indication of whether at least one failure type from the group of possible failure types is likely to occur at an asset within the given period of time in the future.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 16, 2018Publication date: March 21, 2019Inventors: Michael Horrell, John Ciasulli, Sheng Zhong, Adam McElhinney, Brian Silva
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Patent number: 10176032Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems, devices, and methods related to assets and asset operating conditions. In particular, examples involve defining and executing predictive models for outputting health metrics that estimate the operating health of an asset or a part thereof, analyzing health metrics to determine variables that are associated with high health metrics, and modifying the handling of abnormal-condition indicators in accordance with a prediction of a likely response to such abnormal-condition indicators, among other examples.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2015Date of Patent: January 8, 2019Assignee: Uptake Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Michael Horrell, John Ciasulli, Sheng Zhong, Adam McElhinney, Brian Silva