Patents by Inventor Christopher S. Gurciullo

Christopher S. Gurciullo 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: 11741114
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for handling sequence-dependent data as part of processing and/or analyzing large data sets in a distributed data processing environment. The distributed data processing environment can be suitable for handling data generated at a plurality of sites within a network of manufacturing sites. The systems and methods can allow for pre-processing of some values for sequence-dependent data. This can allow secondary aggregated values and/or secondary aggregated data sets to be generated from sequence-dependent data that can span multiple blocks or partitions. Pre-calculation of secondary aggregated values and/or secondary aggregated data sets for sequence-dependent data can allow the efficiencies of parallel or distributed computation to be at least partially retained while also allowing for desired processing of the sequence-dependent data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: ExxonMobil Technology and Engineering Company
    Inventors: Michael A. Hayes, Jeffrey Ludwig, Christopher S. Gurciullo, Terry J. Hayman, Krit H. Petty, Steven J. Seastream
  • Patent number: 11188047
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for detecting events in industrial processes. An acquisition system may include one of a camera and an audio recorder to acquire monitoring data in the form of one of imaging data and acoustic data, respectively. A computer system, may include a machine learning engine and may be programmed to classify the monitoring data under a classifier, quantify, based on the classifier, the monitoring data with at least one quantifier, and detect an event when the at least one quantifier satisfies a predetermined rule corresponding to the at least one quantifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company
    Inventor: Christopher S. Gurciullo
  • Publication number: 20190188192
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for handling sequence-dependent data as part of processing and/or analyzing large data sets in a distributed data processing environment. The distributed data processing environment can be suitable for handling data generated at a plurality of sites within a network of manufacturing sites. The systems and methods can allow for pre-processing of some values for sequence-dependent data. This can allow secondary aggregated values and/or secondary aggregated data sets to be generated from sequence-dependent data that can span multiple blocks or partitions. Pre-calculation of secondary aggregated values and/or secondary aggregated data sets for sequence-dependent data can allow the efficiencies of parallel or distributed computation to be at least partially retained while also allowing for desired processing of the sequence-dependent data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2018
    Publication date: June 20, 2019
    Inventors: Michael A. Hayes, Jeffrey Ludwig, Christopher S. Gurciullo, Terry J. Hayman, Krit H. Petty, Steven J. Seastream
  • Publication number: 20170357233
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for detecting events in industrial processes. An acquisition system may include one of a camera and an audio recorder to acquire monitoring data in the form of one of imaging data and acoustic data, respectively. A computer system, may include a machine learning engine and may be programmed to classify the monitoring data under a classifier, quantify, based on the classifier, the monitoring data with at least one quantifier, and detect an event when the at least one quantifier satisfies a predetermined rule corresponding to the at least one quantifier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2017
    Publication date: December 14, 2017
    Inventor: Christopher S. Gurciullo
  • Patent number: 9358516
    Abstract: The present invention is an improved design and operation of a short contact time Fluid Catalytic Cracking (FCC) Reactor wherein the upper internal riser and a lower internal riser are in fluid connection with one another and provide an improved disengaging zone for entraining the vapors from the dilute phase area of the FCC reactor. Detailed preferred embodiments include improvements over the prior art to the internal central riser, riser termination apparatus, cyclone separators, and a coke mitigation baffle system, as well as associated improved fluid catalytic cracking processes utilizing the novel reactor design.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2016
    Assignee: ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company
    Inventors: Robert F. Tammera, Edward Nicholas Jones, Christopher G. Smalley, Phillip A. Deis, Alvin U. Chen, Christopher S. Gurciullo
  • Patent number: 8349170
    Abstract: The present invention is an improved design and operation of a short contact time Fluid Catalytic Cracking (FCC) Reactor wherein the upper internal riser and a lower internal riser are in fluid connection with one another and provide an improved disengaging zone for entraining the vapors from the dilute phase area of the FCC reactor. Detailed preferred embodiments include improvements over the prior art to the internal central riser, riser termination apparatus, cyclone separators, and a coke mitigation baffle system, as well as associated improved fluid catalytic cracking processes utilizing the novel reactor design.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company
    Inventors: Robert F. Tammera, Edward Nicholas Jones, Christopher G. Smalley, Phillip A. Deis, Alvin U. Chen, Christopher S. Gurciullo
  • Publication number: 20090283445
    Abstract: The present invention is an improved design and operation of a short contact time Fluid Catalytic Cracking (FCC) Reactor wherein the upper internal riser and a lower internal riser are in fluid connection with one another and provide an improved disengaging zone for entraining the vapors from the dilute phase area of the FCC reactor. Detailed preferred embodiments include improvements over the prior art to the internal central riser, riser termination apparatus, cyclone separators, and a coke mitigation baffle system, as well as associated improved fluid catalytic cracking processes utilizing the novel reactor design.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2009
    Publication date: November 19, 2009
    Inventors: Robert F. Tammera, Edward Nicholas Jones, Christopher G. Smalley, Phillip A. Deis, Alvin U. Chen, Christopher S. Gurciullo