Patents by Inventor Farah Colchester

Farah Colchester 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: 9790938
    Abstract: A system for monitoring the operation of a surface pump such as a hand-operated water pump or oil pump, which uses an accelerometer mounted to a component of the pump to monitor movement of a pump component, for example the handle, and transmitted via a data connection such as a mobile data communications network to a server. The accelerometer measurements are processed by using a trained model such as a support vector machine to output an indication of the condition of the pump or the level of liquid in the well or borehole served by the pump. The model may be trained using a training data set of sensor measurements associated with liquid level in the well and condition of the pump.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignee: OXFORD UNIVERSITY INNOVATION LIMITED
    Inventors: David Clifton, Patrick Thomson, Farah Colchester, Heloise Greeff
  • Publication number: 20160076535
    Abstract: A system for monitoring the operation of a surface pump such as a hand-operated water pump or oil pump, which uses an accelerometer mounted to a component of the pump to monitor movement of a pump component, for example the handle, and transmitted via a data connection such as a mobile data communications network to a server. The accelerometer measurements are processed by using a trained model such as a support vector machine to output an indication of the condition of the pump or the level of liquid in the well or borehole served by the pump. The model may be trained using a training data set of sensor measurements associated with liquid level in the well and condition of the pump.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2015
    Publication date: March 17, 2016
    Inventors: David Clifton, Patrick Thomson, Farah Colchester, Heloise Greeff