Patents by Inventor Bruce K. Sawhill
Bruce K. Sawhill 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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Patent number: 11955018Abstract: Disclosed are algorithms and agent-based structures for a system and technique for analyzing and managing the airspace. The technique includes managing bulk properties of large numbers of heterogeneous multidimensional aircraft trajectories in an airspace, for the purpose of maintaining or increasing system safety, and to identify possible phase transition structures to predict when an airspace will approach the limits of its capacity. The paths of the multidimensional aircraft trajectories are continuously recalculated in the presence of changing conditions (traffic, exclusionary airspace, weather, for example) while optimizing performance measures and performing trajectory conflict detection and resolution. Such trajectories are represented as extended objects endowed with pseudo-potential, maintaining objectives for time, acceleration limits, and fuel-efficient paths by bending just enough to accommodate separation.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2020Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: SMARTSKY NETWORKS LLCInventors: Bruce K. Sawhill, James W. Herriot, Bruce J. Holmes
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Publication number: 20200250999Abstract: Disclosed are algorithms and agent-based structures for a system and technique for analyzing and managing the airspace. The technique includes managing bulk properties of large numbers of heterogeneous multidimensional aircraft trajectories in an airspace, for the purpose of maintaining or increasing system safety, and to identify possible phase transition structures to predict when an airspace will approach the limits of its capacity. The paths of the multidimensional aircraft trajectories are continuously recalculated in the presence of changing conditions (traffic, exclusionary airspace, weather, for example) while optimizing performance measures and performing trajectory conflict detection and resolution. Such trajectories are represented as extended objects endowed with pseudo-potential, maintaining objectives for time, acceleration limits, and fuel-efficient paths by bending just enough to accommodate separation.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 20, 2020Publication date: August 6, 2020Inventors: Bruce K. Sawhill, James W. Herriot, Bruce J. Holmes
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Patent number: 10657828Abstract: Disclosed are algorithms and agent-based structures for a system and technique for analyzing and managing the airspace. The technique includes managing bulk properties of large numbers of heterogeneous multidimensional aircraft trajectories in an airspace, for the purpose of maintaining or increasing system safety, and to identify possible phase transition structures to predict when an airspace will approach the limits of its capacity. The paths of the multidimensional aircraft trajectories are continuously recalculated in the presence of changing conditions (traffic, exclusionary airspace, weather, for example) while optimizing performance measures and performing trajectory conflict detection and resolution. Such trajectories are represented as extended objects endowed with pseudo-potential, maintaining objectives for time, acceleration limits, and fuel-efficient paths by bending just enough to accommodate separation.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2017Date of Patent: May 19, 2020Assignee: Smartsky Networks LLCInventors: Bruce K. Sawhill, James W. Herriot, Bruce J. Holmes
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Publication number: 20180040250Abstract: Disclosed are algorithms and agent-based structures for a system and technique for analyzing and managing the airspace. The technique includes managing bulk properties of large numbers of heterogeneous multidimensional aircraft trajectories in an airspace, for the purpose of maintaining or increasing system safety, and to identify possible phase transition structures to predict when an airspace will approach the limits of its capacity. The paths of the multidimensional aircraft trajectories are continuously recalculated in the presence of changing conditions (traffic, exclusionary airspace, weather, for example) while optimizing performance measures and performing trajectory conflict detection and resolution. Such trajectories are represented as extended objects endowed with pseudo-potential, maintaining objectives for time, acceleration limits, and fuel-efficient paths by bending just enough to accommodate separation.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 24, 2017Publication date: February 8, 2018Inventors: Bruce K. Sawhill, James W. Herriot, Bruce J. Holmes
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Patent number: 9830827Abstract: Disclosed are algorithms and agent-based structures for a system and technique for analyzing and managing the airspace. The technique includes managing bulk properties of large numbers of heterogeneous multidimensional aircraft trajectories in an airspace, for the purpose of maintaining or increasing system safety, and to identify possible phase transition structures to predict when an airspace will approach the limits of its capacity. The paths of the multidimensional aircraft trajectories are continuously recalculated in the presence of changing conditions (traffic, exclusionary airspace, weather, for example) while optimizing performance measures and performing trajectory conflict detection and resolution. Such trajectories are represented as extended objects endowed with pseudo-potential, maintaining objectives for time, acceleration limits, and fuel-efficient paths by bending just enough to accommodate separation.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2015Date of Patent: November 28, 2017Assignee: SMARTSKY NETWORKS LLCInventors: Bruce K. Sawhill, James W. Herriot, Bruce J. Holmes
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Publication number: 20150154873Abstract: Disclosed are algorithms and agent-based structures for a system and technique for analyzing and managing the airspace. The technique includes managing bulk properties of large numbers of heterogeneous multidimensional aircraft trajectories in an airspace, for the purpose of maintaining or increasing system safety, and to identify possible phase transition structures to predict when an airspace will approach the limits of its capacity. The paths of the multidimensional aircraft trajectories are continuously recalculated in the presence of changing conditions (traffic, exclusionary airspace, weather, for example) while optimizing performance measures and performing trajectory conflict detection and resolution. Such trajectories are represented as extended objects endowed with pseudo-potential, maintaining objectives for time, acceleration limits, and fuel-efficient paths by bending just enough to accommodate separation.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 6, 2015Publication date: June 4, 2015Inventors: Bruce K. Sawhill, James W. Herriot, Bruce J. Holmes
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Patent number: 8965672Abstract: Disclosed are algorithms and agent-based structures for a system and technique for analyzing and managing the airspace. The technique includes managing bulk properties of large numbers of heterogeneous multidimensional aircraft trajectories in an airspace, for the purpose of maintaining or increasing system safety, and to identify possible phase transition structures to predict when an airspace will approach the limits of its capacity. The paths of the multidimensional aircraft trajectories are continuously recalculated in the presence of changing conditions (traffic, exclusionary airspace, weather, for example) while optimizing performance measures and performing trajectory conflict detection and resolution. Such trajectories are represented as extended objects endowed with pseudo-potential, maintaining objectives for time, acceleration limits, and fuel-efficient paths by bending just enough to accommodate separation.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2013Date of Patent: February 24, 2015Assignee: NextGen AeroSciences, LLCInventors: Bruce K. Sawhill, James W. Herriot, Bruce J. Holmes
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Patent number: 8954262Abstract: Disclosed are algorithms and agent-based structures for a system and technique for analyzing and managing the airspace. The technique includes managing bulk properties of large numbers of heterogeneous multidimensional aircraft trajectories in an airspace, for the purpose of maintaining or increasing system safety, and to identify possible phase transition structures to predict when an airspace will approach the limits of its capacity. The paths of the multidimensional aircraft trajectories are continuously recalculated in the presence of changing conditions (traffic, exclusionary airspace, weather, for example) while optimizing performance measures and performing trajectory conflict detection and resolution. Such trajectories are represented as extended objects endowed with pseudo-potential, maintaining objectives for time, acceleration limits, and fuel-efficient paths by bending just enough to accommodate separation.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2013Date of Patent: February 10, 2015Assignee: NextGen AeroSciences, LLCInventors: Bruce K. Sawhill, James W. Herriot, Bruce J. Holmes
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Publication number: 20140188378Abstract: Disclosed are algorithms and agent-based structures for a system and technique for analyzing and managing the airspace. The technique includes managing bulk properties of large numbers of heterogeneous multidimensional aircraft trajectories in an airspace, for the purpose of maintaining or increasing system safety, and to identify possible phase transition structures to predict when an airspace will approach the limits of its capacity. The paths of the multidimensional aircraft trajectories are continuously recalculated in the presence of changing conditions (traffic, exclusionary airspace, weather, for example) while optimizing performance measures and performing trajectory conflict detection and resolution. Such trajectories are represented as extended objects endowed with pseudo-potential, maintaining objectives for time, acceleration limits, and fuel-efficient paths by bending just enough to accommodate separation.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 20, 2013Publication date: July 3, 2014Inventors: Bruce K. Sawhill, James W. Herriot, Bruce J. Holmes
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Publication number: 20140163850Abstract: Disclosed are algorithms and agent-based structures for a system and technique for analyzing and managing the airspace. The technique includes managing bulk properties of large numbers of heterogeneous multidimensional aircraft trajectories in an airspace, for the purpose of maintaining or increasing system safety, and to identify possible phase transition structures to predict when an airspace will approach the limits of its capacity. The paths of the multidimensional aircraft trajectories are continuously recalculated in the presence of changing conditions (traffic, exclusionary airspace, weather, for example) while optimizing performance measures and performing trajectory conflict detection and resolution. Such trajectories are represented as extended objects endowed with pseudo-potential, maintaining objectives for time, acceleration limits, and fuel-efficient paths by bending just enough to accommodate separation.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2013Publication date: June 12, 2014Inventors: Bruce K. Sawhill, James W. Herriot, Bruce J. Holmes
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Patent number: 8594917Abstract: Disclosed are algorithms and agent-based structures for a system and technique for analyzing and managing the airspace. The technique includes managing bulk properties of large numbers of heterogeneous multidimensional aircraft trajectories in an airspace, for the purpose of maintaining or increasing system safety, and to identify possible phase transition structures to predict when an airspace will approach the limits of its capacity. The paths of the multidimensional aircraft trajectories are continuously recalculated in the presence of changing conditions (traffic, exclusionary airspace, weather, for example) while optimizing performance measures and performing trajectory conflict detection and resolution. Such trajectories are represented as extended objects endowed with pseudo-potential, maintaining objectives for time, acceleration limits, and fuel-efficient paths by bending just enough to accommodate separation.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2012Date of Patent: November 26, 2013Assignee: Nextgen Aerosciences, LLCInventors: Bruce K. Sawhill, James W. Herriot, Bruce J. Holmes
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Patent number: 8554458Abstract: Disclosed are algorithms and agent-based structures for a system and technique for analyzing and managing the airspace. The technique includes managing bulk properties of large numbers of heterogeneous multidimensional aircraft trajectories in an airspace, for the purpose of maintaining or increasing system safety, and to identify possible phase transition structures to predict when an airspace will approach the limits of its capacity. The paths of the multidimensional aircraft trajectories are continuously recalculated in the presence of changing conditions (traffic, exclusionary airspace, weather, for example) while optimizing performance measures and performing trajectory conflict detection and resolution. Such trajectories are represented as extended objects endowed with pseudo-potential, maintaining objectives for time, acceleration limits, and fuel-efficient paths by bending just enough to accommodate separation.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2012Date of Patent: October 8, 2013Assignee: NextGen Aerosciences, LLCInventors: Bruce K. Sawhill, James W. Herriot, Bruce J. Holmes
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Publication number: 20120191333Abstract: Disclosed are algorithms and agent-based structures for a system and technique for analyzing and managing the airspace. The technique includes managing bulk properties of large numbers of heterogeneous multidimensional aircraft trajectories in an airspace, for the purpose of maintaining or increasing system safety, and to identify possible phase transition structures to predict when an airspace will approach the limits of its capacity. The paths of the multidimensional aircraft trajectories are continuously recalculated in the presence of changing conditions (traffic, exclusionary airspace, weather, for example) while optimizing performance measures and performing trajectory conflict detection and resolution. Such trajectories are represented as extended objects endowed with pseudo-potential, maintaining objectives for time, acceleration limits, and fuel-efficient paths by bending just enough to accommodate separation.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 25, 2012Publication date: July 26, 2012Inventors: Bruce K. Sawhill, James W. Herriot, Bruce J. Holmes
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Publication number: 20120191332Abstract: Disclosed are algorithms and agent-based structures for a system and technique for analyzing and managing the airspace. The technique includes managing bulk properties of large numbers of heterogeneous multidimensional aircraft trajectories in an airspace, for the purpose of maintaining or increasing system safety, and to identify possible phase transition structures to predict when an airspace will approach the limits of its capacity. The paths of the multidimensional aircraft trajectories are continuously recalculated in the presence of changing conditions (traffic, exclusionary airspace, weather, for example) while optimizing performance measures and performing trajectory conflict detection and resolution. Such trajectories are represented as extended objects endowed with pseudo-potential, maintaining objectives for time, acceleration limits, and fuel-efficient paths by bending just enough to accommodate separation.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 25, 2012Publication date: July 26, 2012Inventors: Bruce K. Sawhill, James W. Herriot, Bruce J. Holmes
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Patent number: 7707091Abstract: A system and method are provided which dynamically adapts to a changing economic environment by selecting or synthesizing an economic model from a set of economic models based on the selected model's ability to make accurate predictions about an actual economic market. The method and system each forms a space of different economic models, forms a behavioral landscape by extracting observables from executions of the economic models, and performs model selection and composite model synthesis through optimization over the behavioral landscape.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 1999Date of Patent: April 27, 2010Assignee: NuTech Solutions, Inc.Inventors: Stuart A. Kauffman, William G. Macready, Richard G. Palmer, Jack D. Cowan, Daniel Teiltelbaum, Alexander Outkin, Bruce K. Sawhill, Vladimir G. Makhankov, Vince M. Darley
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Publication number: 20040015869Abstract: The present invention relates generally to a method and system for performing an investigation to determine one or more hypotheses in different contexts including criminal trials, scientific inquiry and military intelligence. More specifically, the system comprises one or more tuples to represent the knowledge of one or more objects involved in the investigation wherein the tuples are exchanged among the objects to perform the investigation.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 8, 2001Publication date: January 22, 2004Inventors: James W. Herriot, Bruce K. Sawhill, Carl W. Hunt
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Publication number: 20020019705Abstract: The present invention relates to experimental and algorithmic methods for analysis of genetic regulatory networks. More particularly, the present invention provides methods of partitioning genes withing an organism into a plurality of groups and identification and characterization of correlations between genes and groups of genes in the genomic networks of real viruses, cells, and tissues.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 20, 2001Publication date: February 14, 2002Inventors: Stuart A. Kauffman, Bruce K. Sawhill, Roumen Borissov