Patents by Inventor Frances A. Patterson-Hine

Frances A. Patterson-Hine 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).

  • Method of testing and predicting failures of electronic mechanical systems
    Patent number: 5581694
    Abstract: A method employing a knowledge base of human expertise comprising a reliability model analysis implemented for diagnostic routines is disclosed. The reliability analysis comprises digraph models that determine target events created by hardware failures human actions, and other factors affecting the system operation. The reliability analysis contains a wealth of human expertise information that is used to build automatic diagnostic routines and which provides a knowledge base that can be used to solve other artificial intelligence problems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 1994
    Date of Patent: December 3, 1996
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration
    Inventors: David L. Iverson, Frances A. Patterson-Hine