Patents by Inventor Isabelle B. Snyder

Isabelle B. Snyder 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).

  • Publication number: 20220188474
    Abstract: A method for associating geographic location information with a power system model. The method generally includes the steps of receiving known geographic information for a plurality of power system assets within the model and automatically calculating the geographic information for other power system assets with unknown geographic information based on the imported geographic information and architectural information available within the model. The step of calculating the geographic location information may be performed iteratively initially using only imported geographic information and subsequently using both imported and calculated geographic information. The geographic location of each power system asset with an unknown location may be determined through multilateration based on known locations and branch connection lengths of two or more connections with known geolocations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2021
    Publication date: June 16, 2022
    Inventors: Isabelle B. Snyder, Nils M. Stenvig, Travis M. Smith
  • Patent number: 9116185
    Abstract: Signal filtering removes effects of a periodic, low-frequency noise signal from a signal of interest. A signal waveform is sampled at different points of a number of consecutive periodic noise signal cycles and the collected samples are averaged to produce a corrected signal. The number of consecutive cycles in which samples are taken and averaged is inversely related to the signal amplitude such that as the signal level decreases, the number of cycles examined increases. Improved RMS calculations are obtained for filtering low-frequency random noise from Hall sensors by averaging samples at different points of a signal cycle to create a composite desired signal cycle to facilitate other signal calculations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2015
    Assignee: ITRON, INC.
    Inventors: Michel Gervais, Michael E. Moore, Isabelle B. Snyder
  • Publication number: 20120095704
    Abstract: Signal filtering removes effects of a periodic, low-frequency noise signal from a signal of interest. A signal waveform is sampled at different points of a number of consecutive periodic noise signal cycles and the collected samples are averaged to produce a corrected signal. The number of consecutive cycles in which samples are taken and averaged is inversely related to the signal amplitude such that as the signal level decreases, the number of cycles examined increases. Improved RMS calculations are obtained for filtering low-frequency random noise from Hall sensors by averaging samples at different points of a signal cycle to create a composite desired signal cycle to facilitate other signal calculations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2011
    Publication date: April 19, 2012
    Applicant: ITRON, INC.
    Inventors: Michel Gervais, Michael E. Moore, Isabelle B. Snyder
  • Patent number: 8135564
    Abstract: A signal filtering technique is designed to remove the effects of a periodic, low-frequency noise signal from a signal of interest. A signal waveform is sampled at different points of a number of consecutive periodic noise signal cycles and the collected samples are averaged to produce a corrected signal. The number of consecutive cycles in which samples are taken and averaged is inversely related to the signal amplitude such that as the signal level decreases, the number of cycles examined increases. The technique is particularly applicable to periodic signals associated with the output of Hall effect sensors in an electrical metrology environment. Improved RMS calculations are obtained for filtering low-frequency random noise from Hall sensors by averaging samples at different points of a signal cycle to create a composite desired signal cycle to facilitate other signal calculations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2012
    Assignee: Itron, Inc.
    Inventors: Michel Gervais, Michael E. Moore, Isabelle B. Snyder
  • Publication number: 20110130978
    Abstract: A signal filtering technique is designed to remove the effects of a periodic, low-frequency noise signal from a signal of interest. A signal waveform is sampled at different points of a number of consecutive periodic noise signal cycles and the collected samples are averaged to produce a corrected signal. The number of consecutive cycles in which samples are taken and averaged is inversely related to the signal amplitude such that as the signal level decreases, the number of cycles examined increases. The technique is particularly applicable to periodic signals associated with the output of Hall effect sensors in an electrical metrology environment. Improved RMS calculations are obtained for filtering low-frequency random noise from Hall sensors by averaging samples at different points of a signal cycle to create a composite desired signal cycle to facilitate other signal calculations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2011
    Publication date: June 2, 2011
    Applicant: ITRON, INC.
    Inventors: Michel Gervais, Michael E. Moore, Isabelle B. Snyder
  • Patent number: 7949499
    Abstract: A signal filtering technique is designed to remove the effects of a periodic, low-frequency noise signal from a signal of interest. A signal waveform is sampled at different points of a number of consecutive periodic noise signal cycles and the collected samples are averaged to produce a corrected signal. The number of consecutive cycles in which samples are taken and averaged is inversely related to the signal amplitude such that as the signal level decreases, the number of cycles examined increases. The technique is particularly applicable to periodic signals associated with the output of Hall effect sensors in an electrical metrology environment. Improved RMS calculations are obtained for filtering low-frequency random noise from Hall sensors by averaging samples at different points of a signal cycle to create a composite desired signal cycle to facilitate other signal calculations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2011
    Assignee: Itron, Inc.
    Inventors: Michel Gervais, Michael E. Moore, Isabelle B. Snyder