Patents by Inventor Eric S. Muckley

Eric S. Muckley 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: 11975491
    Abstract: A system for predicting one or more analytes based on outputs from thin film gas sensors is provided. The system may comprise an electronic nose (e-nose). The e-nose may comprise the gas sensors and a first processor. The system may further comprise a second processor. The second processor may be configured to receive the output from each of the gas sensors, evaluate a prediction accuracy using an evaluation parameter of each of a plurality of models which are trained and tested and select a model from among the plurality of models to deploy based on a comparison of the evaluation parameter for each of the plurality of models and use the same. The second processor may also receive, an output of each of the gas sensors caused by unknown one or more analytes; and predict, using the deployed model, the one or more analytes that causes the output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: UT-BATTELLE, LLC
    Inventors: Ilia N. Ivanov, Eric S. Muckley, Nicholas West
  • Patent number: 11958251
    Abstract: An additive manufacturing system comprising at least one electronic nose (e-nose) is provided. The e-nose may comprise a housing and gas sensors. The housing may have an air channel. The active sensor portion of the sensors are positioned in the air channel. The housing may be mounted to an extruder head of an additive manufacturing device. The system may also comprise a processor. The processor may determine whether there is an abnormality in an additive manufacturing process based on one or more combinations of outputs from the gas sensors received during the additive manufacturing process input into a deployed machine learning model; and generate a report for the additive manufacturing process containing the determination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignees: UT-BATTELLE, LLC, UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE RESEARCH FOUNDATION
    Inventors: Ilia N. Ivanov, Eric S. Muckley
  • Publication number: 20220088876
    Abstract: An additive manufacturing system comprising at least one electronic nose (e-nose) is provided. The e-nose may comprise a housing and gas sensors. The housing may have an air channel. The active sensor portion of the sensors are positioned in the air channel. The housing may be mounted to an extruder head of an additive manufacturing device. The system may also comprise a processor. The processor may determine whether there is an abnormality in an additive manufacturing process based on one or more combinations of outputs from the gas sensors received during the additive manufacturing process input into a deployed machine learning model; and generate a report for the additive manufacturing process containing the determination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2021
    Publication date: March 24, 2022
    Inventors: Ilia N. Ivanov, Eric S. Muckley
  • Publication number: 20220091571
    Abstract: An integrated multifunctional environmental characterization system (IMECS) is provided. The IMECS may comprises a memory, one or more interfaces and a processor. The processor may be configured to predict an environment condition adjacent to a thin film using one or more machine learned models from one or more measured properties of the thin film received via the one or more interfaces; and/or predict values for one or more properties of the thin film using the one or more machine learned models from an environmental condition received via one of the one or more interfaces; and display the predicted environment condition and/or the predicted one or more properties. The processor may also adjust the acquisition parameters used to acquire values of one or more properties of the thin film from received acquisition parameters via a user interface based on measured values for the same properties.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2021
    Publication date: March 24, 2022
    Inventors: Ilia N. Ivanov, Eric S. Muckley
  • Publication number: 20220091081
    Abstract: A system for determining an age and/or quality of food or beverage based on one or more combinations of outputs from gas sensors input into a deployed machine learning model is provided. The system may comprise an electronic nose which may comprise a housing and the gas sensors. The housing may have an air channel. Each sensor has its active sensor portion in the air channel. A system for predicting one or more natural language descriptors associated with aromas of an item based on one or more outputs of the gas sensors and calculated one or more ratios input into a logistic regression model is also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2021
    Publication date: March 24, 2022
    Inventors: Ilia N. Ivanov, Eric S. Muckley, Reinaldo C. Reina
  • Publication number: 20220091083
    Abstract: A system for predicting one or more analytes based on outputs from thin film gas sensors is provided. The system may comprise an electronic nose (e-nose). The e-nose may comprise the gas sensors and a first processor. The system may further comprise a second processor. The second processor may be configured to receive the output from each of the gas sensors, evaluate a prediction accuracy using an evaluation parameter of each of a plurality of models which are trained and tested and select a model from among the plurality of models to deploy based on a comparison of the evaluation parameter for each of the plurality of models and use the same. The second processor may also receive, an output of each of the gas sensors caused by unknown one or more analytes; and predict, using the deployed model, the one or more analytes that causes the output.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2021
    Publication date: March 24, 2022
    Inventors: Ilia N. Ivanov, Eric S. Muckley, Nicholas West