Patents by Inventor Dale Ray Cleaveland, SR.

Dale Ray Cleaveland, SR. 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).

  • STRESS FACTOR DRIVEN MAINTENANCE AND SCHEDULING
    Publication number: 20130253853
    Abstract: In one aspect, embodiments of a method of using one or more stress factors to determine whether or when to perform a maintenance activity are described. One embodiment of the method comprises identifying one or more maintenance activities for a system; associating one or more stress factors to each of the identified one or more maintenance activities for the system; determining a value for each of the one or more associated one or more stress factors; and determining, using a computing device, whether to schedule one of the one or more maintenance activities for the system based on the determined value of each of the one or more stress factors associated with the one of the one or more maintenance activities.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2012
    Publication date: September 26, 2013
    Inventors: William Joseph Wunderlin, Gerald Addison Curtin, Dale Ray Cleaveland, SR., John David Hilton, JR., James William Sneed