Patents by Inventor Charles Nofsinger

Charles Nofsinger 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: 10566800
    Abstract: A method for controlling a genset system is provided. The method includes recognizing a communication failure between one or more gensets of a plurality of gensets and a control system and determining an operating state of each of the one or more gensets prior to the communication failure. The method further includes operating the genset system, upon communication failure, according to a load control scheme. The load control scheme includes determining an available power of the genset system based on the determined operating state of each of the one or more gensets and coupling one or more loads to the genset system based on the available power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.
    Inventors: Ronald Christopher Gayles, Edward Maurer Schroeder, Stephen Charles Nofsinger, Josenia Yuen-Sai Gerdes, Andrew W Black
  • Publication number: 20170324250
    Abstract: A method for controlling a genset system is provided. The method includes recognizing a communication failure between one or more gensets of a plurality of gensets and a control system and determining an operating state of each of the one or more gensets prior to the communication failure. The method further includes operating the genset system, upon communication failure, according to a load control scheme. The load control scheme includes determining an available power of the genset system based on the determined operating state of each of the one or more gensets and coupling one or more loads to the genset system based on the available power.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2016
    Publication date: November 9, 2017
    Applicant: Caterpillar Inc.
    Inventors: Ronald Christopher Gayles, Edward Maurer Schroeder, Stephen Charles Nofsinger, Josenia Yuen-sai Gerdes, Andrew W. Black
  • Patent number: 9700259
    Abstract: The present invention is a method of creating custom surgical guides based on the patient's unique anatomy that can be quickly and accurately applied intra-operatively without navigation are disclosed. The device is created using preoperative MRI images and uniquely conforms to the bone in the region of the desired tunnel. The images are filtered and used to generate computerized three dimensional models of surgical guides that conform to the patient's anatomy. The surgical guides can be introduced through a portal and applied to the bone denuded of soft tissue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: University of South Florida
    Inventor: Charles Nofsinger
  • Patent number: 8808301
    Abstract: Custom surgical guides based on the patient's unique anatomy that can be quickly and accurately applied intra-operatively without navigation are disclosed. The device is created using preoperative MRI images and uniquely conforms to the bone in the region of the desired tunnel. The images are filtered and used to generate computerized three dimensional models of the patient's anatomy. The models can be introduced through a portal and applied to the bone denuded of soft tissue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2014
    Assignee: University of South Florida
    Inventor: Charles Nofsinger
  • Patent number: 7619324
    Abstract: A method of operating a power system is provided. The power system may have a plurality of generator sets and a power line. The method may include commanding a plurality of the generator sets that are disconnected from the power line to start generating electricity. The method may also include supplying to a control device acting as a coordinating control unit information about the operating state of each of the plurality of generator sets commanded to start generating electricity. Additionally, the method may include determining with the coordinating control unit which of the plurality of generator sets has become ready to supply electricity to the power line first. The method may also include initiating supply of electricity to the power line by first connecting to the power line the generator set that the coordinating control unit has determined to be the first ready to supply electricity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2009
    Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.
    Inventors: Keith Ronald Folken, Michael Allen Dvorsky, Julie Lynn Boley, James Dean McBurney, Andrew William Black, David Lee Zwetz, II, Stephen Charles Nofsinger
  • Publication number: 20080179959
    Abstract: A method of operating a power system is provided. The power system may have a plurality of generator sets and a power line. The method may include commanding a plurality of the generator sets that are disconnected from the power line to start generating electricity. The method may also include supplying to a control device acting as a coordinating control unit information about the operating state of each of the plurality of generator sets commanded to start generating electricity. Additionally, the method may include determining with the coordinating control unit which of the plurality of generator sets has become ready to supply electricity to the power line first. The method may also include initiating supply of electricity to the power line by first connecting to the power line the generator set that the coordinating control unit has determined to be the first ready to supply electricity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2007
    Publication date: July 31, 2008
    Inventors: Keith Ronald Folken, Michael Allen Dvorsky, Julie Lynn Boley, James Dean McBurney, Andrew William Black, David Lee Zwetz, Stephen Charles Nofsinger