Patents by Inventor David A. Ellis

David A. Ellis 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).

  • Publication number: 20200166431
    Abstract: A method for determining an arrival-time of a rotor blade that includes attaching an RF reader to a stationary surface and an RF tag to the rotor blade. Strength-of-signal data points are collected via an RF monitoring process that includes: emitting an RF signal from the RF reader; receiving the RF signal at the RF tag and emitting a return RF signal by the RF tag in response thereto; receiving the return RF signal at the RF reader; measuring a signal strength of the return RF signal as received by the RF reader; and determining the strength-of-signal data point as being equal to the measured signal strength. The RF monitoring process is repeated until multiple strength-of-signal data points are collected. A maximum strength-of-signal is determined from the multiple strength-of-signal data points, and the arrival-time for the rotor blade is determined as being a time that corresponds to the maximum strength-of-signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2018
    Publication date: May 28, 2020
    Applicant: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Kurt Kramer Schleif, Michael Allen Ball, Mario Joseph Arceneaux, Andrew David Ellis, Vincent Carmona
  • Patent number: 10641720
    Abstract: The present application thus provides a thermal barrier coating spallation detection system for a gas turbine. The thermal barrier coating spallation detection system may include a hot gas path component with a phosphor layer and a thermal barrier coating, a stimulant radiation source, and an optical device such that the optical device directs stimulant radiation at the thermal barrier coating and receives emission radiation. A change in the received emission radiation indicates spallation of the thermal barrier coating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Andrew David Ellis, Kurt Kramer Schleif, Zachary John Snider
  • Patent number: 10635628
    Abstract: A host controller apparatus for determining information related to a time shift for transmitting instructions on a command and address bus includes an interface for transmitting a plurality of instruction signals to a memory module via the command and address bus and for receiving a loopback feedback signal from the memory module. The host controller apparatus further includes a control module configured to transmit the plurality of instruction signals to the memory module via the command and address bus. The control module is configured to receive the loopback feedback signal from the memory module. The loopback feedback signal includes a looped-back composite version of the plurality of instruction signals. The control module is configured to determine the information related to the time shift for transmitting instructions on the command and address bus based on the loopback feedback signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Christina Jue, Tonia Morris, Zhenglong Wu, David Ellis, Daniel Becerra
  • Publication number: 20200125725
    Abstract: Utilities for data network monitoring for identification of security threats and other occurrences of interest and analytical tools for selecting actions to be taken to reduce further harm or vulnerability. Log message data (e.g., log messages, alerts, etc.) may be enriched with supplemental information related to an identity (e.g., user) that is not initially present in the log message data, but which may be beneficial in generating events and identifying appropriate response actions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2018
    Publication date: April 23, 2020
    Inventors: Christopher L. Petersen, Bruce Deakyne, David Ellis, Matthew Willems, Benjamin Aldrich, Michael Sannes
  • Patent number: 10620790
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and software for data visualization frameworks are provided herein. An exemplary method includes identifying a target dataset from which to determine data insights for presentation in an insight interface to the user application. The method includes determining data insight candidates for the target dataset based at least on usage modalities associated with processing one or more past datasets, and establishing content of the data insight candidates according to at least the target dataset and the usage modalities, where the content of each of the data insight candidates includes at least one insight object described by object metadata that indicates at least a processing lineage used to produce the at least one insight object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Charles David Ellis, Dominique Fortier, Liyin Xue, Ashvini Sharma, Jakob Peter Nielsen, Carlos Augusto Otero, Safiya Bhojawala, Catherine William Neylan
  • Patent number: 10612901
    Abstract: A real-time compensation system of a projectile includes at least one flight controller, at least one imager device, at least one gyroscope, and at least one processor. The at least one flight controller is configured to rotate the projectile about an axis between a first orientation and a second orientation. The at least one imager device is configured to capture a first image at the first orientation and a second image at the second orientation. The at least one gyroscope is configured to sense a first angular rate of the projectile as the projectile rotates from the first orientation to the second orientation. The at least one processor is configured to determine a first rotation angle based upon the first and second images and a second rotation angle based upon the angular rate sensed by the at least one gyroscope, and determine a gyroscope compensation parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: Simmonds Precision Products, Inc.
    Inventors: David Ellis, Todd Anthony Ell
  • Patent number: 10552123
    Abstract: Embodiments relate to incorporating supplemental information into a code editor's editing view that may make the code more understandable to those not familiar or comfortable with the code. The editor receives adornments that may be translations or semantic equivalents of constructs already in the code. The editor adds the adornments to an editing view for editing the source code. The adornments are inserted into lines of the source code displayed in the editing view and have some of the appearance of the source code in the editing view. The adornments are passive with respect to the source code; they are not necessarily compiled or saved. The adornments may be tokens provided by a compiler and/or an integrated development environment. The editor may apply heuristics or rules to determine which adornments are to be used and where they will be inserted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Anson Michael Horton, David Ellis Pugh
  • Patent number: 10517553
    Abstract: An X-ray imaging system is provided. The X-ray imaging system includes an X-ray radiation source, an X-ray detector, and a C-arm. The C-arm has the X-ray radiation source disposed on a first end and the X-ray detector disposed on a second end opposite the first end. The X-ray imaging system also includes a motorized system configured to rotate the C-arm about three different rotational axes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: David Ellis Barker, John Matthew Simmons
  • Patent number: 10502517
    Abstract: A limb for an archery bow includes a first member in the form of a helix and a second member in the form of a helix. The bow includes a riser and spaced cams, wheels or limb tips carrying a bow string. The first and second members extend between the riser and a cam, wheel or limb tip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: Exergy Outdoors L.L.C.
    Inventor: Paul David Ellis, Jr.
  • Patent number: 10485499
    Abstract: Various methods and systems are provided for an integrated arm of an imaging device. In one example, an imaging system may comprise: a base unit; a C-arm coupled to the base unit and including an x-ray source and detector positioned on opposite ends of a C-shaped portion of the C-arm; and a display monitor attached to the C-arm via an integrated arm, wherein the display monitor is movable between a first position on a first side of the C-arm, to a second position on a second side of the C-arm by traveling over a top of an upper half of the C-shaped portion. In this way, the integrated arm may provide a simplified means of orienting the display monitor while promoting better performance of the imaging system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: David Ellis Barker, Mingtao Liu, Cong Peng, Samuel Lee Alder
  • Publication number: 20190328343
    Abstract: An X-ray imaging system is provided. The X-ray imaging system includes an X-ray radiation source, an X-ray detector, and a C-arm. The C-arm has the X-ray radiation source disposed on a first end and the X-ray detector disposed on a second end opposite the first end. The X-ray imaging system also includes a motorized system configured to rotate the C-arm about three different rotational axes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2019
    Publication date: October 31, 2019
    Inventors: David Ellis Barker, John Matthew Simmons
  • Patent number: 10442246
    Abstract: A device configured to couple to a wheel assembly of a mobile device is provided. The device includes a first side portion configured to couple to a first lateral side of the wheel assembly. The device also includes a second side portion configured to couple to a second lateral side of the wheel assembly opposite the first lateral side, wherein the first and second side portions are compliant mechanisms configured to both move a movable obstacle out of a path of the mobile device and to retract in response to a force exerted on the first and second side portions by a fixed obstacle disposed along the path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: David Ellis Barker, Brettany Rupert, Melissa Elvia Barraza, Andrew A. May, Cameron Barrett Pluim, Cameron Michael Thevenin, Michael LeNeave
  • Publication number: 20190293396
    Abstract: A real-time compensation system of a projectile includes at least one flight controller, at least one imager device, at least one gyroscope, and at least one processor. The at least one flight controller is configured to rotate the projectile about an axis between a first orientation and a second orientation. The at least one imager device is configured to capture a first image at the first orientation and a second image at the second orientation. The at least one gyroscope is configured to sense a first angular rate of the projectile as the projectile rotates from the first orientation to the second orientation. The at least one processor is configured to determine a first rotation angle based upon the first and second images and a second rotation angle based upon the angular rate sensed by the at least one gyroscope, and determine a gyroscope compensation parameter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2018
    Publication date: September 26, 2019
    Inventors: David Ellis, Todd Anthony Ell
  • Publication number: 20190278569
    Abstract: Embodiments relate to incorporating supplemental information into a code editor's editing view that may make the code more understandable to those not familiar or comfortable with the code. The editor receives adornments that may be translations or semantic equivalents of constructs already in the code. The editor adds the adornments to an editing view for editing the source code. The adornments are inserted into lines of the source code displayed in the editing view and have some of the appearance of the source code in the editing view. The adornments are passive with respect to the source code; they are not necessarily compiled or saved. The adornments may be tokens provided by a compiler and/or an integrated development environment. The editor may apply heuristics or rules to determine which adornments are to be used and where they will be inserted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2018
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Inventors: Anson Michael Horton, David Ellis Pugh
  • Publication number: 20190171777
    Abstract: In non-limiting examples of the present disclosure, systems, methods and devices for assisting with providing dataset insights associated with datasets are presented. A dataset and a query relating to the dataset may be received. The dataset may be processed to determine metadata that describes one or more properties of the dataset. The dataset, the determined metadata, and the user query may be provided to one or more modular recommendation elements for processing into an insight result that indicates a result from data analysis directed to the query. The insight result may be transferred in a portable format for use by the productivity application in displaying one or more insight objects based on the insight result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2018
    Publication date: June 6, 2019
    Inventors: Ehab Sobhy Deraz, Charles David Ellis, Michael Joe Woolf, Matthew Willem Asplund, Mathew B. Olinger, Sameer Surendra Jagdale, Charles Strempler
  • Publication number: 20190156702
    Abstract: Facilitating navigating presentations of data structures in a computing environment. A method includes detecting user input for navigating to a location in a presentation of a data structure stored at a computing system. The method further includes as a result of detecting user input for navigating to a location in the presentation of a data structure, outputting from an accessibility compliant interface at the computing system, at least a portion of a notification identifying the location in the presentation of a data structure. The method further includes, as a result of detecting user input for navigating to a location in the presentation of a data structure, outputting from the accessibility compliant interface at the computing system, at least a portion of an enumeration of tokens for predetermined items of import relevant to the location.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2017
    Publication date: May 23, 2019
    Inventors: Hemchander Venkateshwara SANNIDHANAM, David Ellis PUGH, Mark Alistair WILSON-THOMAS, Christian David GUNDERMAN
  • Publication number: 20190146758
    Abstract: A collaboration session is provided in which an owner computer system and a participant computer system are both members. While working within this session, the participant computer system is provided access to a multi-file workspace that is stored locally on the owner computer system. The owner computer system receives a request that is directed to the multi-file workspace. Here, the request originates from the participant computer system. In response to the request, the owner computer system handles the request and then returns a response to the participant computer system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2018
    Publication date: May 16, 2019
    Inventors: Charles Eric LANTZ, Jonathan Preston CARTER, Simon CALVERT, David Ellis Pugh, Guillaume JENKINS, Daniel LEBU, Kesavan SHANMUGAM
  • Publication number: 20190147048
    Abstract: Tracking edits executed against a file to ensure that the edits are monitored consistently so that language service requests are properly handled. Initially, a collaboration session is established. This collaboration session includes an owner and a participant computer system. Then, the owner computing system receives messages that are directed toward a file stored by the owner computer system. These messages include edits that are to be performed against the file and language service request(s). A file version is then assigned to a subset of these edits. As the subset of edits are executed against the file, the file's state changes. The file versions are published to both the participant computer system and to a language service running on the owner computer system. The language service uses the published file versions to track the edits that are being executed against the file and to respond to the language service request(s).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2018
    Publication date: May 16, 2019
    Inventors: David Ellis PUGH, Srivatsn NARAYANAN, Kesavan SHANMUGAM, Guillaume JENKINS, Jason Ronald William RAMSAY, Daniel LEBU, Alexandru DIMA, Erich GAMMA
  • Publication number: 20190107499
    Abstract: The present application thus provides a thermal barrier coating spallation detection system for a gas turbine. The thermal barrier coating spallation detection system may include a hot gas path component with a phosphor layer and a thermal barrier coating, a stimulant radiation source, and an optical device such that the optical device directs stimulant radiation at the thermal barrier coating and receives emission radiation. A change in the received emission radiation indicates spallation of the thermal barrier coating.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2017
    Publication date: April 11, 2019
    Inventors: Andrew David Ellis, Kurt Kramer Schleif, Zachary John Snider
  • Patent number: 10240986
    Abstract: A system includes a thermographic temperature sensor that may measure a temperature of a fluid. The thermographic temperature sensor includes a probe, an optical source coupled to the probe, and a detector coupled to the probe. The system also includes a housing of the probe; and a light pipe of the probe disposed within the housing and including a thermographic phosphor that may phosphoresce in response to absorbing light from the optical source. The phosphorescence by the thermographic phosphor is representative of a temperature of the fluid within a flow path of the fluid, and the detector may detect the phosphorescence by the thermographic phosphor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Donald W. Shaw, Andrew David Ellis, David Beshears, Duane Weldon Dinkel, Jason Ryan Henderson, Stephen W. Allison