Patents by Inventor Eric WESTERVELT

Eric WESTERVELT 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: 11214380
    Abstract: According to some embodiments, system and methods are provided, comprising receiving one or more mission objectives for an aircraft mission, and condition data at a mission execution module; generating, via the mission execution module, a mission plan executable to address at least one of the one or more mission objectives via manipulation of a power-thermal management system (PTMS); receiving the generated mission plan at the PTMS directly from the mission execution module; and automatically executing the generated mission plan to operate an aircraft. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Hendrik Pieter Jacobus de Bock, Matthew Robert Cerny, Gary Quackenbush, Eric Westervelt, William Gerstler
  • Patent number: 11003146
    Abstract: Some embodiments provide a distributed optimization framework and technology for the control of aggregated propulsion system components that iteratively operates until a commanded propulsion-related profile is produced by aggregated components of the propulsion system. Some embodiments use a distributed iterative solution in which each component solves a local optimization problem with local constraints and states, while using global variables that are based upon information from each other component. The global variables may be determined via a distributed transaction system using component-specific information obtained from each component at each iteration. The global variables may be broadcast to the components for each new iteration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Eric Westervelt, James Reepmeyer, Reza Ghaemi
  • Publication number: 20190391540
    Abstract: Some embodiments provide a distributed optimization framework and technology for the control of aggregated propulsion system components that iteratively operates until a commanded propulsion-related profile is produced by aggregated components of the propulsion system. Some embodiments use a distributed iterative solution in which each component solves a local optimization problem with local constraints and states, while using global variables that are based upon information from each other component. The global variables may be determined via a distributed transaction system using component-specific information obtained from each component at each iteration. The global variables may be broadcast to the components for each new iteration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2019
    Publication date: December 26, 2019
    Inventors: Eric WESTERVELT, James REEPMEYER, Reza GHAEMI
  • Publication number: 20180354641
    Abstract: According to some embodiments, system and methods are provided, comprising receiving one or more mission objectives for an aircraft mission, and condition data at a mission execution module; generating, via the mission execution module, a mission plan executable to address at least one of the one or more mission objectives via manipulation of a power-thermal management system (PTMS); receiving the generated mission plan at the PTMS directly from the mission execution module; and automatically executing the generated mission plan to operate an aircraft. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2018
    Publication date: December 13, 2018
    Inventors: Hendrik Pieter Jacobus de BOCK, Matthew Robert CERNY, Gary QUACKENBUSH, Eric WESTERVELT, William GERSTLER