Patents by Inventor Christian Harris

Christian Harris 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).

  • Publication number: 20220092659
    Abstract: A method, system, and computer program product for representational learning of product formulas are provided. The method accesses a set of product formulas. Each product formula includes a set of ingredient tuples. A directed graph is generated from the set of product formulas. The directed graph including a node for each ingredient of the sets of ingredient tuples of the set of formulas. The method generates a weighted graph from the directed graph. The weighted graph has a weight assigned to each edge in the directed graph. The method generates an embedding model based on the directed graph. A set of embeddings is determined for the weighted graph where each node is represented with low-dimensional numerical vectors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2020
    Publication date: March 24, 2022
    Inventors: Petar Ristoski, Richard T. Goodwin, Jing Fu, Richard B. Segal, Robin Lougee, Kimberly C. Lang, CHRISTIAN HARRIS, Tenzin Yeshi
  • Patent number: 7980514
    Abstract: One embodiment of the invention includes a spacecraft. The spacecraft comprises at least one solar array panel comprising an array of solar cell sections. Each of the solar cell sections can be configured to generate electrical power from received solar radiation. The spacecraft also comprises a solar array selection controller configured to selectively deactivate a portion of the array of solar cell sections to generate a torque on the spacecraft based on a difference in at least one of solar and thermal radiation pressure between an activated portion of the array of solar cell sections and the deactivated portion of the array of solar cell sections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2011
    Assignee: Northrop Grumman Space & Mission Systems Corp.
    Inventors: James Wehner, Lael Rudd, Christian Harris, Shahram Foroozan
  • Publication number: 20090230250
    Abstract: One embodiment of the invention includes a spacecraft. The spacecraft comprises at least one solar array panel comprising an array of solar cell sections. Each of the solar cell sections can be configured to generate electrical power from received solar radiation. The spacecraft also comprises a solar array selection controller configured to selectively deactivate a portion of the array of solar cell sections to generate a torque on the spacecraft based on a difference in at least one of solar and thermal radiation pressure between an activated portion of the array of solar cell sections and the deactivated portion of the array of solar cell sections.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2008
    Publication date: September 17, 2009
    Inventors: James Wehner, Lael Rudd, Christian Harris, Shahram Foroozan
  • Publication number: 20050263647
    Abstract: Controlling the solar torque imposed on a spacecraft (10) in flight by providing a film (52) with variable absorptive, reflective, emissive and/or transmissive properties on the sun side of a thermal shield (50) of the spacecraft (10). As the orientation of the thermal shield (50) changes relative to the sun line, the absorptive, reflective, emissive and/or transmissive properties of the shield (50) change to cause the shield's (50) center of solar pressure to change, thus aligning it with the spacecraft (10) center of mass (24) as viewed from the direction of the sun line. In accordance with another embodiment of the invention, the spacecraft (100) is provided with a plurality of control vanes (110-116) that have a variable absorptive, transmissive, reflective and emissive property to maintain the spacecraft (100) stably pointed towards the sun.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2005
    Publication date: December 1, 2005
    Applicant: Northrop Grumman Corporation
    Inventors: James Wehner, Christian Harris, Michael O'Rell
  • Publication number: 20050263648
    Abstract: A spacecraft including control vanes for controlling the pointing direction of the spacecraft by providing a variable absorptive, reflective, emissive and/or transmissive properties. The control vanes provide a torque on the spacecraft to maintain the spacecraft pointing towards the sun. The control vanes can include at least one xb-axis control vane and at least one yb-axis control vane where the xb axis control vane provides xb-axis control torque on the spacecraft rotated about the xb-axis, and the yb-axis control vane provides yb-axis control torque on the spacecraft when rotated about the yb-axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2005
    Publication date: December 1, 2005
    Applicant: Northrop Grumman Corporation
    Inventors: James Wehner, Christian Harris, Michael O'Rell