Patents by Inventor Craig Farris Battles

Craig Farris Battles 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: 9183419
    Abstract: A radiofrequency identification (RFID) device includes an active RFID tag that includes a power source and a passive RFID tag reader, the passive RFID tag reader electrically coupled to the power source of the active RFID tag.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Kevin Y. Ung, Craig Farris Battles, Brian James Smith, William David Kelsey, Lindsey M. Caton, Anil Kumar
  • Patent number: 9137847
    Abstract: Computer-implemented methods are disclosed for the application of potential field methods in directing agents. A task is assigned for each of a plurality of mobile communication nodes. A dynamic model is assigned for characterizing a behavior of the nodes. Potential fields are applied to the dynamic model to direct movement of each of the nodes such that the nodes each perform the assigned task with the plurality of mobile communications nodes providing a communications network to serve a communications area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2015
    Assignee: THE BOEING COMPANY
    Inventors: Arun Ayyagari, Craig Farris Battles, Michael A. Dorsett
  • Patent number: 9067690
    Abstract: An anomaly detection and cataloging system is described that includes a handheld probe having a probe tip, a user interface, and a communications interface. The system further includes a system controller and a probe locating device. The probe is operable, via the user interface, for transmitting, via the communications interface, a user selected anomaly type to the system controller, the anomaly type being associated with a manufactured part or airplane on the ground (AOG). The probe locating device is operable to provide to the system controller a location associated with the probe tip, and the system is programmed to associate the user selected anomaly type with the location associated with the probe tip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2015
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Samuel Francis Pedigo, Brice A. Johnson, Craig Farris Battles, Donald L. Kaiser, Kimberly Jyl Kaiser, Richard Neil Blair, Winfeng Li, James M. Cobb, Matthew W. Smith
  • Publication number: 20130054176
    Abstract: An anomaly detection and cataloging system is described that includes a handheld probe having a probe tip, a user interface, and a communications interface. The system further includes a system controller and a probe locating device. The probe is operable, via the user interface, for transmitting, via the communications interface, a user selected anomaly type to the system controller, the anomaly type being associated with a manufactured part or airplane on the ground (AOG). The probe locating device is operable to provide to the system controller a location associated with the probe tip, and the system is programmed to associate the user selected anomaly type with the location associated with the probe tip.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2011
    Publication date: February 28, 2013
    Inventors: Samuel Francis Pedigo, Brice A. Johnson, Craig Farris Battles, Donald L. Kaiser, Kimberly Jyl Kaiser, Richard Neil Blair, Winfeng Li, James M. Cobb, Matthew W. Smith
  • Patent number: 8130081
    Abstract: A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program code for managing data on an intermittently connected sensor. A data management system manages the data on radio frequency identification tags. The data management system comprises a radio frequency identification tag capable of storing the data, program code stored on the radio frequency identification tag, and a reader data processing system. The reader data processing system is capable of receiving the data and the program code from the radio frequency identification tag in a radio frequency signal and capable of executing the program code to read the data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2012
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Kevin Yong Ung, Richard Neil Blair, Arun Ayyagari, Craig Farris Battles, Thanh Duc Hoang, Brian James Smith, William P. Coop, Marc Rollo Matsen
  • Patent number: 7705725
    Abstract: Methods and systems for structural and component health monitoring are provided. A system includes a plurality of sensor systems positioned about an object to be monitored and a processing system communicatively coupled to at least one of said plurality of sensor systems wherein the processing system includes an ontology and reasoning module configured to model the object to be monitored, reason about the received sensor data associated with the object to be monitored and reason about the relationships between the received sensor data to fuse the data into contextual information for the overall object to be monitored and a contextual analyzer configured to transmit the received sensor data to said ontology and reasoning module and to store the information into a contextual information database.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2010
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Marc R. Matsen, Gary E. Georgeson, Everett Westerman, Kenneth Porad, Arun Ayyagari, Kevin Ung, Craig Farris Battles, David Blackwell
  • Publication number: 20090212914
    Abstract: A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program code for managing data on an intermittently connected sensor. A data management system manages the data on radio frequency identification tags. The data management system comprises a radio frequency identification tag capable of storing the data, program code stored on the radio frequency identification tag, and a reader data processing system. The reader data processing system is capable of receiving the data and the program code from the radio frequency identification tag in a radio frequency signal and capable of executing the program code to read the data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2008
    Publication date: August 27, 2009
    Inventors: Kevin Yong Ung, Richard Neil Blair, Arun Ayyagari, Craig Farris Battles, Thanh Duc Hoang, Brian James Smith, William P. Coop, Marc Rollo Matsen
  • Publication number: 20080167833
    Abstract: Methods and systems for structural and component health monitoring are provided. A system includes a plurality of sensor systems positioned about an object to be monitored and a processing system communicatively coupled to at least one of said plurality of sensor systems wherein the processing system includes an ontology and reasoning module configured to model the object to be monitored, reason about the received sensor data associated with the object to be monitored and reason about the relationships between the received sensor data to fuse the data into contextual information for the overall object to be monitored and a contextual analyzer configured to transmit the received sensor data to said ontology and reasoning module and to store the information into a contextual information database.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2007
    Publication date: July 10, 2008
    Inventors: Marc R. Matsen, Gary E. Georgeson, Everett Westerman, Kenneth Porad, Arun Ayyagari, Kevin Ung, Craig Farris Battles, David Blackwell