Patents by Inventor Christopher James Lyons
Christopher James Lyons 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).
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Publication number: 20210370971Abstract: A vehicle navigation system may include a data pipeline that proposes routing graph modifications from automatically ingested data sources and that provides enough context to suggest an expiration time to remove the routing graph modifications once imposed. The system and method receives from at least one data source routing graph modification data including geographic location data identifying a location to which a routing graph modification applies. The routing graph modification data is associated with one or more roadway elements in a routing graph of a navigation constraints system, and the routing graph modification data associated with the one or more roadway elements is classified as a routing graph modification. The routing graph modification is added to or, if expired, removed from the navigation constraints system.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 28, 2021Publication date: December 2, 2021Inventors: Alvin AuYoung, Chaoqun Tao, Anny Xinda Yang, Christopher James Lyons, Bryan John Nagy, Quinn Zikun Shen, Michael Beeheng Goff, Alexander Rashid Ansari, Qing Li
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Patent number: 11016476Abstract: A system includes one or more sensors coupled to industrial equipment, wherein the one or more sensors are configured to obtain one or more measurements associated with one or more operating characteristics of the industrial equipment. The system also includes a computing device that includes a user interface and one or more processors. The one or more processors are configured to: receive the one or more measurements of the one or more operating characteristics of the industrial equipment; determine a status of the industrial equipment based on the one or more measurements; determine a date and a time based on the one or more measurements; and update a cell in a grid of cells organized according to time increments based on the status, the date, and the time.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2019Date of Patent: May 25, 2021Assignee: Baker Hughes, a GE Company, LLCInventors: Christopher James Lyons, David Clayton Bingham, Waqas Javed, Ricardo Lucas Bastos Breder
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Publication number: 20200239024Abstract: Various examples are directed to systems and methods for routing autonomous vehicles. A system may receive an indication of a roadway element associated with a routing graph for routing autonomous vehicles and may determine an impact score for the roadway element. The impact score may describe an impact of applying a routing graph modification to the routing graph to modify routing to the roadway element. Based at least in part on the impact score, the system may apply the routing graph modification to the routing graph to generate a constrained routing graph and generate a route for a first autonomous vehicle based at least in part on the constrained routing graph. The system may instruct the first autonomous vehicle to begin traversing the route.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 24, 2020Publication date: July 30, 2020Inventors: Arvind Srinivasan, Jay Yuan, Valerie Chadha, Michael Voznesensky, Rei Chiang, Christopher James Lyons
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Publication number: 20200027354Abstract: Systems and methods for controlling an autonomous vehicle to reduce wasteful data usage are provided. In one example embodiment, a computing system can determine that a first autonomous vehicle is in an idle state in which the first autonomous vehicle is online with a service entity and is not performing a vehicle service. The computing system can obtain vehicle parameter(s) associated with the first autonomous vehicle that is in the idle state and environmental parameter(s). The computing system can determine a task for the first autonomous vehicle to perform while the first autonomous vehicle is in the idle state based at least in part on at least one of the vehicle parameter(s) or the environmental parameter(s). The computing system can communicate data indicative of the task for the first autonomous vehicle to perform while the first autonomous vehicle is in the idle state.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 23, 2019Publication date: January 23, 2020Inventors: Brent Justin Goldman, Leigh Gray Hagestad, Rei Chiang, Christopher James Lyons
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Publication number: 20190354114Abstract: Systems and methods for controlling autonomous vehicle activation are provided. In one example embodiment, a computing system can obtain data associated with an autonomous vehicle that is offline with a service entity. The computing system can obtain data indicative of a geographic area associated with the service entity. The computing system can determine that the autonomous vehicle is to go online with the service entity within the geographic area based at least in part on the data associated with the autonomous vehicle and the data indicative of the geographic area. The computing system can communicate data indicative of an activation assignment associated with the autonomous vehicle. The activation assignment can be indicative of at least a portion of the geographic area within which the autonomous vehicle is to go online with the service entity.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 16, 2019Publication date: November 21, 2019Inventors: Brent Justin Goldman, Leigh Gray Hagestad, Rei Chiang, Christopher James Lyons
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Publication number: 20190332100Abstract: A system includes one or more sensors coupled to industrial equipment, wherein the one or more sensors are configured to obtain one or more measurements associated with one or more operating characteristics of the industrial equipment. The system also includes a computing device that includes a user interface and one or more processors. The one or more processors are configured to: receive the one or more measurements of the one or more operating characteristics of the industrial equipment; determine a status of the industrial equipment based on the one or more measurements; determine a date and a time based on the one or more measurements; and update a cell in a grid of cells organized according to time increments based on the status, the date, and the time.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 13, 2019Publication date: October 31, 2019Applicant: General Electric CompanyInventors: Christopher James Lyons, David Clayton Bingham, Waqas Javed, Ricardo Lucas Bastos Breder
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Patent number: 10209706Abstract: A system includes one or more sensors coupled to industrial equipment, wherein the one or more sensors are configured to obtain one or more measurements associated with one or more operating characteristics of the industrial equipment. The system also includes a computing device that includes a user interface and one or more processors. The one or more processors are configured to: receive the one or more measurements of the one or more operating characteristics of the industrial equipment; determine a status of the industrial equipment based on the one or more measurements; determine a date and a time based on the one or more measurements; and update a cell in a grid of cells organized according to time increments based on the status, the date, and the time.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2016Date of Patent: February 19, 2019Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Christopher James Lyons, David Clayton Bingham, Waqas Javed, Ricardo Lucas Bastos Breder
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Publication number: 20170205817Abstract: A system includes one or more sensors coupled to industrial equipment, wherein the one or more sensors are configured to obtain one or more measurements associated with one or more operating characteristics of the industrial equipment. The system also includes a computing device that includes a user interface and one or more processors. The one or more processors are configured to: receive the one or more measurements of the one or more operating characteristics of the industrial equipment; determine a status of the industrial equipment based on the one or more measurements; determine a date and a time based on the one or more measurements; and update a cell in a grid of cells organized according to time increments based on the status, the date, and the time.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 20, 2016Publication date: July 20, 2017Inventors: Christopher James Lyons, David Clayton Bingham, Waqas Javed, Ricardo Lucas Bastos Breder
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Patent number: 6924407Abstract: Improved methods for conducting solid acid-catalyzed, near- or supercritical heterogeneous chemical reactions (e.g., alkylation reactions) are provided which give enhanced product yields and permit longer processing runs. The preferred reactions of the invention are carried out in the presence of a solid macroporous catalyst having a surface area of from about 50-400 m2/g and a pore size of from about 70-150 ?. Product selectivity is enhanced by pressure-tuning of the reaction to promote production and separation of desired reaction products. In continuous processing, the chemical reaction may be interrupted before significant catalyst deactivation, followed by increasing reactor pressure and/or reducing reactor temperature to remove the accumulating coke; when the catalyst is regenerated, the original reaction conditions and reactant introduction may be resumed.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2001Date of Patent: August 2, 2005Assignee: The University of KansasInventors: Bala Subramaniam, Christopher James Lyon
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Publication number: 20030073876Abstract: Improved methods for conducting solid acid-catalyzed, near- or supercritical heterogeneous chemical reactions (e.g., alkylation reactions) are provided which give enhanced product yields and permit longer processing runs. The preferred reactions of the invention are carried out in the presence of a solid macroporous catalyst having a surface area of from about 50-400 m2/g and a pore size of from about 70-150 Å. Product selectivity is enhanced by pressure-tuning of the reaction to promote production and separation of desired reaction products. In continuous processing, the chemical reaction may be interrupted before significant catalyst deactivation, followed by increasing reactor pressure and/or reducing reactor temperature to remove the accumulating coke; when the catalyst is regenerated, the original reaction conditions and reactant introduction may be resumed.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 27, 2001Publication date: April 17, 2003Inventors: Bala Subramaniam, Christopher James Lyon
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Patent number: D786299Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2015Date of Patent: May 9, 2017Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventors: David Sean Farrell, David Bingham, Christopher James Lyons, Ricardo Lucas Bastos Breder