Patents by Inventor Howard Lee Springston, Jr.

Howard Lee Springston, Jr. 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).

  • Predictive maintenance systems and methods of a manufacturing environment
    Patent number: 11531329
    Abstract: A method of monitoring one or more manufacturing components includes clustering vibration data associated with the one or more manufacturing components to generate a plurality of clusters, determining a vibration characteristic of the one or more manufacturing components based on the plurality of clusters, comparing auxiliary data associated with the one or more manufacturing components and an auxiliary data prediction model associated with the one or more manufacturing components, and determining an auxiliary characteristic of the one or more manufacturing components based on a comparison of the auxiliary data associated and the auxiliary data prediction model. The method includes determining a state of the one or more manufacturing components based on the vibration characteristic and the auxiliary characteristic and broadcasting a notification based on the state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Brodie Schultz, Elizabeth Bullard, Howard Lee Springston, Jr., Chandra Sekhar Jalluri