Patents by Inventor Daniel Arthur Staver
Daniel Arthur Staver 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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Patent number: 11415606Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for improving the operation of a computer or other electronic device that utilizes root-mean-square (RMS) measurements, e.g., RMS current measurements, by reducing error in the RMS measurement. A series of measurement samples are received at a processor, which executes a noise-decorrelated RMS algorithm including: calculating a current-squared value for each measurement sample by multiplying the measurement sample by a prior measurement sample in the series (rather by simply squaring each measurement sample as in conventional techniques), summing the current-squared values, and calculating an RMS value based on the summed values. The processor may also execute a frequency-dependent magnitude correction filter to correct for frequency-dependent attenuation associated with the noise-decorrelated RMS algorithm.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2020Date of Patent: August 16, 2022Assignee: Microchip Technology IncorporatedInventor: Daniel Arthur Staver
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Patent number: 10809284Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for improving the operation of a computer or other electronic device that utilizes root-mean-square (RMS) measurements, e.g., RMS current measurements, by reducing error in the RMS measurement. A series of measurement samples are received at a processor, which executes a noise-decorrelated RMS algorithm including: calculating a current-squared value for each measurement sample by multiplying the measurement sample by a prior measurement sample in the series (rather by simply squaring each measurement sample as in conventional techniques), summing the current-squared values, and calculating an RMS value based on the summed values. The processor may also execute a frequency-dependent magnitude correction filter to correct for frequency-dependent attenuation associated with the noise-decorrelated RMS algorithm.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2018Date of Patent: October 20, 2020Assignee: MICROCHIP TECHNOLOGY INCORPORATEDInventor: Daniel Arthur Staver
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Publication number: 20190128928Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for improving the operation of a computer or other electronic device that utilizes root-mean-square (RMS) measurements, e.g., RMS current measurements, by reducing error in the RMS measurement. A series of measurement samples are received at a processor, which executes a noise-decorrelated RMS algorithm including: calculating a current-squared value for each measurement sample by multiplying the measurement sample by a prior measurement sample in the series (rather by simply squaring each measurement sample as in conventional techniques), summing the current-squared values, and calculating an RMS value based on the summed values. The processor may also execute a frequency-dependent magnitude correction filter to correct for frequency-dependent attenuation associated with the noise-decorrelated RMS algorithm.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 30, 2018Publication date: May 2, 2019Applicant: Microchip Technology IncorporatedInventor: Daniel Arthur Staver
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Patent number: 8319509Abstract: A testing circuit configures an analog to digital converter (ADC) to receive a test signal instead of a live input signal. The testing circuit compares an output test value from the ADC to an expected test value for the test signal. The testing circuit provides an expected live output value to a digital circuit instead of the output test value, thereby preventing the ADC from providing a value to the digital circuit not based on the live input signal.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2012Date of Patent: November 27, 2012Assignee: Atmel CorporationInventors: Daniel Arthur Staver, Jean-Jacques Kazazian
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Patent number: 7548223Abstract: A low cost and easy to assemble communicating utility meter provides selectable measurement, calibration, display, and communications means so as to be re-configurable based on several factors including; harmonic content of the power signal measured, LCD display alternatives, time of use measurements, bandpass filter settings, power quality measurements, PLC communications. alternatives, radio frequency communications alternatives, optical communications alternatives, and hard wire communications alternatives.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2004Date of Patent: June 16, 2009Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Glen William Brooksby, Daniel David Harrison, Daniel Arthur Staver, Ertugrul Berkcan, Ralph Thomas Hoctor, Wolfgang Daum, Kenneth Brakeley Welles, II
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Patent number: 6970586Abstract: A detector framing node controls generation of radiation and radioscopic image detection Radioscopic image data is acquired and communicated independently of a host computer operating system. The detector framing node controls events in real time according to an event instruction sequence and receives the image data by way of an image detection interface into a memory unit. The image data is output from the memory unit to host memory of the host computer through a computer communication interface and under the control of a control unit. The detector framing node selects a flat panel detector from a plurality of different flat panel detectors and the image data is selectively reordered according to parameters of the selected flat panel detector before communication to host memory.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2001Date of Patent: November 29, 2005Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Richard Dudley Baertsch, Walter Vincent Dixon, Daniel Arthur Staver, Nick Andrew Van Stralen, Robert Gideon Wodnicki
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Patent number: 6904124Abstract: A real time imaging system includes a programmable detector framing node controlling generation of radiation and controlling radioscopic image detection. Radioscopic image data is acquired and communicated by the detector framing node independently of a host computer operating system. The detector framing node controls events in real time according to an event instruction sequence and communicates the received radioscopic image data to host memory through a computer communication bus. The image data is received from a selected flat panel detector of a plurality of different flat panel detectors. The detector framing node is programmable by way of a pair of JTAG loops. The JTAG loops receive programming instructions from the host computer and from a pair of JTAG ports.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2001Date of Patent: June 7, 2005Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Daniel Arthur Staver, Nick Andrew Van Stralen, Robert Gideon Wodnicki
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Patent number: 6901159Abstract: An imaging system includes a programmable detector framing node controlling generation of radiation and controlling radioscopic image detection. Radioscopic image data is acquired by the detector framing node and communicated to a host memory of a host computer independently of a host computer operating system. Image data is received from a flat panel detector and is selectively reordered according to parameters of the selected flat panel detector before communication to the host memory. The detector framing node includes an image detection interface to receive the image data and a control unit to select a predetermined portion of the image data for storage into a detector memory unit before communication to the host memory.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2001Date of Patent: May 31, 2005Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Richard Dudley Baertsch, Walter Vincent Dixon, Daniel Arthur Staver, Nick Andrew Van Stralen, Robert Gideon Wodnicki
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Patent number: 6816360Abstract: A low cost and easy to assemble communicating utility meter provides selectable measurement, calibration, display, and communications means so as to be re-configurable based on several factors including; harmonic content of the power signal measured, LCD display alternatives, time of use measurements, bandpass filter settings, power quality measurements, PLC communications alternatives, radio frequency communications alternatives, optical communications alternatives, and hard wire communications alternatives.Type: GrantFiled: April 5, 2001Date of Patent: November 9, 2004Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Glen William Brooksby, Daniel David Harrison, Daniel Arthur Staver, Ertugrul Berkcan, Ralph Thomas Hoctor, Wolfgang Daum, Kenneth Brakeley Welles, II
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Publication number: 20040113622Abstract: A control instrumentation system is provided for active vibration reduction in an open MRI system. The control instrumentation system comprises a sensor coupled to a post of the open MRI system for detecting vibration signals and converting the vibration signal to a corresponding electrical signal, a digital signal processor implementing a control algorithm to process the electrical signal to generate a corresponding control signal and an actuator receiving the control signal and using the control signal to minimize the vibration of the system.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 13, 2002Publication date: June 17, 2004Inventors: Huageng Luo, Daniel Arthur Staver, Darren Lee Hallman, Walter John Smith
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Patent number: 6738934Abstract: An on-chip watchdog circuit (100) is provided that generates an output signal (175) when an error signal (112) generated by a circuit under test (110) is detected. The on-chip watchdog circuit (100) comprises a logic gate (125) that is connected to a clock signal and receives a signal in response to the error signal 112 generated by the circuit under test (110). A gate output circuit (140) is connected to an output of the logic gate (125). An RC circuit (150) is connected to the gate output circuit (140). A comparator (170) is connected to the RC circuit (150). The comparator (170) is also connected to a voltage divider (160) and provides the output signal (175) in response to the error signal (112) generated by the circuit under test (110), and the on-chip watchdog circuit (100) and the circuit under test (110) are integrated on a same semiconductor microchip.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2001Date of Patent: May 18, 2004Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Paul Andrew Frank, Daniel Arthur Staver
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Publication number: 20040090301Abstract: In accordance with one embodiment of the present invention, a method of forming a toroidal winding assembly comprises: forming a longitudinal assembly having a first assembly end and a second assembly end; bending the longitudinal assembly to form a generally toroidal assembly; and bonding the first assembly end to the second assembly end to form the toroidal winding assembly.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 6, 2003Publication date: May 13, 2004Inventors: Ertugrul Berkcan, Daniel Arthur Staver, Wolfgang Daum, David Dean Elmore
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Publication number: 20040022325Abstract: A two-wire communication protocol between a controller device and a controlled device, wherein both devices are coupled by a clock line and a data line. The controller device sends control signals comprising N bits, N being greater than or equal to two, to the controlled device via the data line. Each bit of said control signals is latched onto the controlled device on consecutive edges of a clock signal sent by the controller device to the controlled device on the clock line.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 31, 2002Publication date: February 5, 2004Inventors: Daniel Arthur Staver, Bruce Carl Wall, Tue Tran
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Patent number: 6675463Abstract: A method of forming a toroidal winding assembly comprises: forming a longitudinal assembly having a first assembly end and a second assembly end; bending the longitudinal assembly to form a generally toroidal assembly; and bonding the first assembly end to the second assembly end to form the toroidal winding assembly.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2001Date of Patent: January 13, 2004Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Ertugrul Berkcan, Daniel Arthur Staver, Wolfgang Daum, David Dean Elmore
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Publication number: 20030040820Abstract: A real time imaging system includes a programmable detector framing node controlling generation of radiation and controlling radioscopic image detection. Radioscopic image data is acquired and communicated by the detector framing node independently of a host computer operating system. The detector framing node controls events in real time according to an event instruction sequence and communicates the received radioscopic image data to host memory through a computer communication bus. The image data is received from a selected flat panel detector of a plurality of different flat panel detectors. The detector framing node is programmable by way of a pair of JTAG loops. The JTAG loops receive programming instructions from the host computer and from a pair of JTAG ports.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 31, 2001Publication date: February 27, 2003Applicant: General Electric CompanyInventors: Daniel Arthur Staver, Nick Andrew Van Stralen, Robert Gideon Wodnicki
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Publication number: 20030031353Abstract: An imaging system includes a programmable detector framing node controlling generation of radiation and controlling radioscopic image detection. Radioscopic image data is acquired by the detector framing node and communicated to a host memory of a host computer independently of a host computer operating system. Image data is received from a flat panel detector and is selectively reordered according to parameters of the selected flat panel detector before communication to the host memory. The detector framing node includes an image detection interface to receive the image data and a control unit to select a predetermined portion of the image data for storage into a detector memory unit before communication to the host memory.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 31, 2001Publication date: February 13, 2003Applicant: General Electric CompanyInventors: Richard Dudley Baertsch, Walter Vincent Dixon, Daniel Arthur Staver, Nick Andrew Van Stralen, Robert Gideon Wodnicki
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Publication number: 20030020964Abstract: A detector framing node controls generation of radiation and radioscopic image detection. Radioscopic image data is acquired and communicated independently of a host computer operating system. The detector framing node controls events in real time according to an event instruction sequence and receives the image data by way of an image detection interface into a memory unit. The image data is output from the memory unit to host memory of the host computer through a computer communication interface and under the control of a control unit. The detector framing node selects a flat panel detector from a plurality of different flat panel detectors and the image data is selectively reordered according to parameters of the selected flat panel detector before communication to host memory.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 31, 2001Publication date: January 30, 2003Applicant: General Electric CompanyInventors: Richard Dudley Baertsch, Walter Vincent Dixon, Daniel Arthur Staver, Nick Andrew Van Stralen, Robert Gideon Wodnicki
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Publication number: 20020181654Abstract: A real time data acquisition system includes a personal computer and a detector framing node cooperating to control generation of radiation and control radiographic detection. Data is acquired by a detector framing node and communicated independently of a non-real time operating system running on a host computer. The detector framing node controls events in real time according to an event instruction sequence and communicates received radioscopic data to a host memory. Data is received from a selected flat panel detector of a plurality of different flat panel detectors. The data is received as single frames or continuous frames before communication to the host memory.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 31, 2001Publication date: December 5, 2002Applicant: General Electric CompanyInventors: Richard Dudley Baertsch, Walter Vincent Dixon, Daniel Arthur Staver, Nick Andrew Van Stralen, Robert Gideon Wodnicki, John Eric Tkaczyk
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Patent number: 6487625Abstract: A circuit and method for achieving hold time compatibility between data-source devices coupled to a data-requesting device through a data bus is provided. The circuit is made up of an impedance coupled to the data bus, and the value of that impedance is selected, based on a respective capacitance in the data bus, to introduce a predetermined delay to data passing therethrough.Type: GrantFiled: January 5, 2000Date of Patent: November 26, 2002Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Daniel Arthur Staver, Paul Andrew Frank
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Patent number: 6470071Abstract: A real time data acquisition system includes a personal computer and a detector framing node cooperating to control generation of radiation and control radiographic detection. Data is acquired by a detector framing node and communicated independently of a non-real time operating system running on a host computer. The detector framing node controls events in real time according to an event instruction sequence and communicates received radioscopic data to a host memory. Data is received from a selected flat panel detector of a plurality of different flat panel detectors. The data is received as single frames or continuous frames before communication to the host memory.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2001Date of Patent: October 22, 2002Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Richard Dudley Baertsch, Walter Vincent Dixon, Daniel Arthur Staver, Nick Andrew Van Stralen, Robert Gideon Wodnicki, John Eric Tkaczyk