Patents by Inventor Chester J. Weiss

Chester J. Weiss 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).

  • Systems, methods and computer program products for charging autonomous wireless sensors in subsurface environments
    Patent number: 11876398
    Abstract: Autonomous wireless sensors in subsurface environments can be charged while present in the subsurface environment to allow the sensors to measure and wirelessly transmit measurements. The sensors rely upon a contrast agent to provide a power flow path to the sensors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignees: National Technology & Engineering Solutions of Sandia, LLC, The Board of Regents of the University of Texas System, Wayne State University
    Inventors: Jason E. Heath, Gungor Didem Beskardes, Wallace McAliley, Chester J. Weiss, Mohsen Ahmadian-Tehrani, David T. Chapman, Leela Arava
  • Methods and devices for preventing computationally explosive calculations in a computer for model parameters distributed on a hierarchy of geometric simplices
    Patent number: 11010513
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method of preventing computationally explosive calculations. The method includes obtaining, by a processor of the computer, measured data of one of a physical process or a physical object; performing hierarchical numerical modeling of a physical process inclusive of an Earth model containing at least one of (a) infrastructure in the ground and (b) a formation feature in the ground, wherein predicted data is generated; comparing the measured data to the predicted data to calculate an estimated error; analyzing the estimated error via an inversion process to update the at least one of the Earth model and infrastructure model so as to reduce the estimated error and to determine a final composite Earth model of at least one of the infrastructure and the feature; and using the final composite Earth model to characterize at least one of the process and the physical object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: National Technology & Engineering Solutions of Sandia, LLC
    Inventor: Chester J. Weiss
  • METHODS AND DEVICES FOR PREVENTING COMPUTATIONALLY EXPLOSIVE CALCULATIONS IN A COMPUTER FOR MODEL PARAMETERS DISTRIBUTED ON A HIERARCHY OF GEOMETRIC SIMPLICES
    Publication number: 20180247003
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method of preventing computationally explosive calculations. The method includes obtaining, by a processor of the computer, measured data of one of a physical process or a physical object; performing hierarchical numerical modeling of a physical process inclusive of an Earth model containing at least one of (a) infrastructure in the ground and (b) a formation feature in the ground, wherein predicted data is generated; comparing the measured data to the predicted data to calculate an estimated error; analyzing the estimated error via an inversion process to update the at least one of the Earth model and infrastructure model so as to reduce the estimated error and to determine a final composite Earth model of at least one of the infrastructure and the feature; and using the final composite Earth model to characterize at least one of the process and the physical object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2018
    Publication date: August 30, 2018
    Inventor: Chester J. Weiss