Patents by Inventor Carlos M. Talbott

Carlos M. Talbott 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).

  • Condition-based prognosis for machinery
    Patent number: 6411908
    Abstract: A method for assembling condition monitoring histories of same-type machines that have lived in same-type environments and have failed as a result of the same failure mode, estimating the remaining life with confidence bounds in an operating machine that presents a set of condition symptoms over time and that is diagnosed with a pending failure mode, and deciding when to replace/repair an operating machine (diagnosed with a specific failure mode condition) based on the cost of its estimated performance over its predicted remaining life.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2002
    Assignee: Machinery Prognosis, Inc.
    Inventor: Carlos M. Talbott