Patents by Inventor Douglas Peter Knapp

Douglas Peter Knapp 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: 12322225
    Abstract: A method, apparatus, system, and computer program product for managing a platform. Sensor information for a platform health of the platform is received from a sensor system for the platform. The sensor information for the platform health of the platform is sent by a computer system into a machine learning model trained using historical sensor information indicating a historical platform health and historical context information corresponding to the historical sensor information in which the historical context information is for a set of operating conditions. A remaining useful life of a component in the platform is received by the computer system from the machine learning model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2025
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Kang-Yu Ni, Tsai-Ching Lu, Alexander Norman Waagen, Aruna Rani Jammalamadaka, Charles Eugene Martin, Alice Ann Murphy, Derek Samuel Fok, Kirby Joe Keller, Douglas Peter Knapp
  • Patent number: 12288425
    Abstract: A method, apparatus, system, and computer program product for managing a platform. A computer system generates a training dataset comprising historical metric values from historical sensor information for a set of metrics for a part and historical maintenance events for the part. The computer system trains a machine learning model using the training dataset. The computer system determines different maintenance thresholds for maintenance parameters for a metric in the set of metrics for performing maintenance on the part using the machine learning model trained with the training dataset. The computer system selects maintenance thresholds for the maintenance parameters from the maintenance thresholds meeting an objective to form a maintenance plan. The maintenance plan is used to determine when a maintenance action is needed for the part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Alexander Waagen, Aruna Jammalamadaka, Alice A. Murphy, Derek S. Fok, Douglas Peter Knapp, Tsai-Ching Lu
  • Publication number: 20250021943
    Abstract: A computing system including one or more processing devices configured to generate a graphical model of locations, vehicles, and vehicle maintenance resources. The processing devices receive vehicle health signal data and maintenance event data. The processing devices compute a logistic plan based on the graphical model. The logistic plan includes an assignment of the vehicles and resources among the locations. Computing the logistic plan includes determining that the assignment satisfies a vulnerability assessment constraint. Over a plurality of maintenance plan generating iterations, the processing devices compute a maintenance plan for the vehicles that minimizes or maximizes a maintenance plan objective function. Each of the iterations includes computing the maintenance plan based on the vehicle health signal data, the maintenance event data, and the logistic plan, and modifying the logistic plan if performing the maintenance plan would violate the vulnerability assessment constraint.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2023
    Publication date: January 16, 2025
    Inventors: Alice A. Murphy, Derek S. Fok, Douglas Peter Knapp, Alexander Waagen, Tsai-Ching Lu
  • Publication number: 20230394889
    Abstract: A method, apparatus, system, and computer program product for managing a platform. A computer system generates a training dataset comprising historical metric values from historical sensor information for a set of metrics for a part and historical maintenance events for the part. The computer system trains a machine learning model using the training dataset. The computer system determines different maintenance thresholds for maintenance parameters for a metric in the set of metrics for performing maintenance on the part using the machine learning model trained with the training dataset. The computer system selects maintenance thresholds for the maintenance parameters from the maintenance thresholds meeting an objective to form a maintenance plan. The maintenance plan is used to determine when a maintenance action is needed for the part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2022
    Publication date: December 7, 2023
    Inventors: Alexander Waagen, Aruna Jammalamadaka, Alice A. Murphy, Derek S. Fok, Douglas Peter Knapp, Tsai-Ching Lu
  • Publication number: 20220398550
    Abstract: A method, apparatus, system, and computer program product for managing a platform. Sensor information for a platform health of the platform is received from a sensor system for the platform. The sensor information for the platform health of the platform is sent by a computer system into a machine learning model trained using historical sensor information indicating a historical platform health and historical context information corresponding to the historical sensor information in which the historical context information is for a set of operating conditions. A remaining useful life of a component in the platform is received by the computer system from the machine learning model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2022
    Publication date: December 15, 2022
    Inventors: Kang-Yu Ni, Tsai-Ching Lu, Alexander Norman Waagen, Aruna Rani Jammalamadaka, Charles Eugene Martin, Alice Ann Murphy, Derek Samuel Fok, Kirby Joe Keller, Douglas Peter Knapp