Patents by Inventor Catherine Mary Graichen

Catherine Mary Graichen 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).

  • Patent number: 10691087
    Abstract: A method for building a model-based control solution is disclosed. The method includes obtaining, via a model-based control definition sub-unit, a first set of component models from a component model library and defining, via the model-based control definition sub-unit, a system model by interconnecting the first set of component models. Also, the method includes obtaining, via the model-based control definition sub-unit, a first model-based analytic algorithm from a model-based analytic algorithm library and associating, via the model-based control definition sub-unit, the first model-based analytic algorithm with the system model to generate the model-based control solution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Fernando Javier D'Amato, Catherine Mary Graichen, Ramu Sharat Chandra
  • Publication number: 20190163147
    Abstract: A method for building a model-based control solution is disclosed. The method includes obtaining, via a model-based control definition sub-unit, a first set of component models from a component model library and defining, via the model-based control definition sub-unit, a system model by interconnecting the first set of component models. Also, the method includes obtaining, via the model-based control definition sub-unit, a first model-based analytic algorithm from a model-based analytic algorithm library and associating, via the model-based control definition sub-unit, the first model-based analytic algorithm with the system model to generate the model-based control solution.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2017
    Publication date: May 30, 2019
    Inventors: Fernando Javier D'Amato, Catherine Mary Graichen, Ramu Sharat Chandra
  • Patent number: 9898593
    Abstract: A method and system for identifying a source of a copied work that in one embodiment includes obtaining at least some portions of a reference work, collecting at least some portions of the suspect work, matching the suspect work with the reference work, wherein the matching includes temporally aligning one or more frames of the reference work and the suspect work, spatially aligning frames of the reference work and the suspect work, and detecting forensic marks in the suspect work by spatiotemporal matching with the reference work.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: NBCUniversal Media, LLC
    Inventors: Zhaohui Harry Sun, Catherine Mary Graichen, Corey Nicholas Bufi, Anthony James Hoogs, Aaron Shaw Markham, Budhaditya Deb, Roderic Greene Collins, Michael Shane Wilkinson, Anthony Christopher Anderson, Jenny Marie Weisenberg Williams
  • Publication number: 20140380493
    Abstract: A method and system for identifying a source of a copied work that in one embodiment includes obtaining at least some portions of a reference work, collecting at least some portions of the suspect work, matching the suspect work with the reference work, wherein the matching includes temporally aligning one or more frames of the reference work and the suspect work, spatially aligning frames of the reference work and the suspect work, and detecting forensic marks in the suspect work by spatiotemporal matching with the reference work.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2014
    Publication date: December 25, 2014
    Inventors: Zhaohui Harry Sun, Catherine Mary Graichen, Corey Nicholas Bufi, Anthony James Hoogs, Aaron Shaw Markham, SR., Budhaditya Deb, Roderic Greene Collins, Michael Shane Wilkinson, Anthony Christopher Anderson, Jenny Marie Weisenberg Williams
  • Patent number: 8793498
    Abstract: A method and system for identifying a source of a copied work that in one embodiment includes obtaining at least some portions of a reference work, collecting at least some portions of the suspect work, matching the suspect work with the reference work, wherein the matching includes temporally aligning one or more frames of the reference work and the suspect work, spatially aligning frames of the reference work and the suspect work, and detecting forensic marks in the suspect work by spatiotemporal matching with the reference work.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: NBCUniversal Media, LLC
    Inventors: Zhaohui Sun, Catherine Mary Graichen, Corey Nicholas Bufi, Anthony James Hoogs, Aaron Shaw Markham, Budhaditya Deb, Roderic Greene Collins, Michael Shane Wilkinson, Anthony Christopher Anderson, Jenny Marie Weisenberg
  • Publication number: 20120245479
    Abstract: A system for monitoring physiology, having: a RADAR transmitter and a RADAR receiver; a state estimation module configured to process a returned RADAR signal to detect a presence of motion and set a motion state upon said presence of motion, said state estimation module configured to detect a presence of one or more physiological parameters including heartbeat and respiration, and said state estimation module configured to assign a still state or a concern state based on said presence of physiological parameters; a rate estimation module configured to estimate one or more estimated physiological rates including an estimated respiration rate and an estimated heart rate; and an alerting module configured to provide an alert if an alert value exceeds an alert value threshold, wherein the alert value is derived from at least one of the motion state, concern state, still state and the estimated physiological rates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2011
    Publication date: September 27, 2012
    Inventors: Meena Ganesh, Jeffrey Michael Ashe, Lijie Yu, Catherine Mary Graichen
  • Patent number: 8269602
    Abstract: A security system to identify a true door forced open alarm is provided. The security system includes an electronic entry means configured to allow access through a door. The security system also includes a request to exit device configured to indicate a request to exit the door. The security system also includes a logic unit configured to control access through the door and determine whether an open state of the door is allowed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2012
    Assignee: UTC Fire & Security Americas Corporation, Inc.
    Inventor: Catherine Mary Graichen
  • Patent number: 8126679
    Abstract: A Monitoring and Diagnostics System is provided, which includes a monitoring unit and a monitored unit remotely located from the monitoring unit. The System also includes communication means between the monitoring unit and the monitored unit. The monitored unit includes data acquisition means for providing fault data of the monitored unit and the communication means are adapted to communicate the fault data from the monitored unit to the monitoring unit. The monitoring unit includes a rules engine having a set of expert rules for analyzing the information contained in the fault data and being adapted to deduce diagnostics information from the rules and from the information. In addition, a communication method for communicating between a first Programmable Logic Controller and a second Programmable Logic Controller or a central unit is provided, in which a description file is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2012
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Vinay Bhaskar Jammu, Catherine Mary Graichen, Arnim Smolenski, Mahesh Amritlal Morjaria, Soumen De, Aurélie Bureau
  • Patent number: 8103477
    Abstract: A system and method for identifying a change in walking speed of a person is provided. The system comprises a plurality of sensors disposed in various rooms of a structure. The system may also include a processor-based system that may receive signals representative of the motion and/or location of the person from the sensors. The system may establish and store a travel time for a path traveled by the person through the structure based on the signals representative of the motion and/or location of the person. The system may identify at least one path from among various travel paths traveled by the person through the structure as having a consistent travel time over a period of time. The system also identifies a change in the person's walking speed by identifying changes in the travel time for the at least one path traveled by the person through the structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2012
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Catherine Mary Graichen, Paul Edward Cuddihy, Meena Ganesh, Jenny Marie Weisenberg
  • Patent number: 8009041
    Abstract: An access monitoring and control system is provided. The access monitoring and control system includes a sensing device configured to collect data points regarding at least one of movement of a person through an access portal and a state of the access portal and a processing unit configured to receive the data points from the sensing device and to form activity clusters from the data points based upon similar patterns of inactive or active behaviors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2011
    Assignee: UTC Fire & Security Americas Corporation, Inc.
    Inventor: Catherine Mary Graichen
  • Publication number: 20100235142
    Abstract: A Monitoring and Diagnostics System is provided, which includes a monitoring unit and a monitored unit remotely located from the monitoring unit. The System also includes communication means between the monitoring unit and the monitored unit. The monitored unit includes data acquisition means for providing fault data of the monitored unit and the communication means are adapted to communicate the fault data from the monitored unit to the monitoring unit. The monitoring unit includes a rules engine having a set of expert rules for analyzing the information contained in the fault data and being adapted to deduce diagnostics information from the rules and from the information. In addition, a communication method for communicating between a first Programmable Logic Controller and a second Programmable Logic Controller or a central unit is provided, in which a description file is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2010
    Publication date: September 16, 2010
    Inventors: Vinay Bhaskar Jammu, Catherine Mary Graichen, Arnim Smolenski, Mahesh Amritlal Morjaria, Soumen De, Aurélie Bureau
  • Publication number: 20100037059
    Abstract: A method and system for identifying a source of a copied work that in one embodiment includes obtaining at least some portions of a reference work, collecting at least some portions of the suspect work, matching the suspect work with the reference work, wherein the matching includes temporally aligning one or more frames of the reference work and the suspect work, spatially aligning frames of the reference work and the suspect work, and detecting forensic marks in the suspect work by spatiotemporal matching with the reference work.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2008
    Publication date: February 11, 2010
    Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Zhaohui Sun, Catherine Mary Graichen, Corey Nicholas Bufi, Anthony James Hoogs, Aaron Shaw Markham, Budhaditya Deb, Roderic Greene Collins, Michael Shane Wilkinson, Anthony Christopher Anderson, Jenny Marie Weisenberg
  • Publication number: 20090254004
    Abstract: A system and method for identifying a change in walking speed of a person is provided. The system comprises a plurality of sensors disposed in various rooms of a structure. The sensors are operable to provide a signal representative of motion and/or the location of the person within the structure. The system may also include a processor-based system that may receive signals representative of the motion and/or location of the person from the sensors. The processor-based system may establish a travel time for a path traveled by the person through the structure based on the signals representative of the motion and/or location of the person and may store the travel time within the processor-based system. The processor-based system may identify at least one path traveled by the person through the structure from among various travel paths traveled by the person through the structure as having a consistent travel time over a period of time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2009
    Publication date: October 8, 2009
    Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Catherine Mary Graichen, Paul Edward Cuddihy, Meena Ganesh, Jenny Marie Weisenberg
  • Publication number: 20090228980
    Abstract: A system for detecting an anomalous access event is provided. The system includes a tracking module configured to provide multiple graphical representations corresponding to a number of paths traversed by an individual at various times. The system also includes a similarity metric module configured to compare the multiple graphical representations and detect an anomalous access event.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2008
    Publication date: September 10, 2009
    Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Virginia Ann Zingelewicz, Catherine Mary Graichen, Corey Nicholas Bufi, Renee Ann Guhde
  • Patent number: 7535368
    Abstract: A system and method for identifying a change in walking speed of a person is provided. The system comprises a plurality of sensors disposed in various rooms of a structure. The sensors are operable to provide a signal representative of motion and/or the location of the person within the structure. The system may also include a processor-based system that may receive signals representative of the motion and/or location of the person from the sensors. The processor-based system may establish a travel time for a path traveled by the person through the structure based on the signals representative of the motion and/or location of the person and may store the travel time within the processor-based system. The processor-based system may identify at least one path traveled by the person through the structure from among various travel paths traveled by the person through the structure as having a consistent travel time over a period of time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2009
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Catherine Mary Graichen, Paul Edward Cuddihy, Meena Ganesh, Jenny Marie Weisenberg
  • Publication number: 20090121869
    Abstract: An access monitoring and control system is provided. The access monitoring and control system includes a sensing device configured to collect data points regarding at least one of movement of a person through an access portal and a state of the access portal and a processing unit configured to receive the data points from the sensing device and to form activity clusters from the data points based upon similar patterns of inactive or active behaviors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2007
    Publication date: May 14, 2009
    Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventor: Catherine Mary Graichen
  • Publication number: 20090051528
    Abstract: A security system to identify a true door forced open alarm is provided. The security system includes an electronic entry means configured to allow access through a door. The security system also includes a request to exit device configured to indicate a request to exit the door. The security system also includes a logic unit configured to control access through the door and determine whether an open state of the door is allowed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2007
    Publication date: February 26, 2009
    Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventor: Catherine Mary Graichen
  • Patent number: 7249284
    Abstract: A technique is provided for designing and evaluating service models for components, functions, subsystems and field replaceable units in a complex machine system. At a component or item level, each model identifies various items, failure modes, and so forth which may be the root cause of anticipated serviceable events or faults. The design tools permit numerous interfaces to be used in the design of service models, and in the evaluation of the degree to which the models address detectability and isolation capabilities for the root causes of serviceable events and faults.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2007
    Assignee: GE Medical Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Rasiklal Punjalal Shah, Vrinda Rajiv, Mark David Osborn, Catherine Mary Graichen, Amey Sudhakar Joshi, Sreevidya Sambasivan, Jieqian Cathy Chen, Ernest Joseph Waldron
  • Patent number: 7154399
    Abstract: A system and method for monitoring whether a resident is away from home or inactive within the home. A sensor, which includes a transmitter, a processor, a timer, and a detector, watches for motion to occur within a home. Upon sensing motion, the sensor sends a first signal indicative of the motion if the timer is not currently running and waits for the motion to end. If the timer already is running, the timer is restarted at zero. Upon expiration of a predetermined timing period, the sensor transmits a second signal indicative of inactivity. By comparing the timing of the second signal and the predetermined timing period, with a third signal sent by an exterior door sensor, a determination can be made whether the resident has left the home or is inactive within the home. The system includes a database, a CPU and State Model for determining the activity state of a home.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2006
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Paul Edward Cuddihy, Meena Ganesh, Jenny Marie Weisenberg, Catherine Mary Graichen, Vrinda Rajiv, Mark Mitchell Kornfein
  • Patent number: 7149657
    Abstract: A method, system and computer product for estimating a remaining equipment life is provided. Data are collected relating to the parameters. The data are stored and integrated. Then, the remaining equipment life is estimated using the integrated data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2006
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Kai Frank Goebel, Catherine Mary Graichen, Michael Robert Dometita