Patents by Inventor Jeffrey Richard Lucas

Jeffrey Richard Lucas 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: 11144972
    Abstract: A method relating to pricing under a contractual service agreement between a customer and a service provider, where the service provider provides maintenance services on a generating unit for a fee. An output of the generating unit is produced by a generator to which the generating unit is operably connected. The method comprising: determining a usage period for the generating unit; monitoring the output of the generating unit during the usage period and, therefrom, designating an output level for the generating unit for the usage period; calculating the fee for the usage period pursuant to a variable pricing plan, the variable pricing plan comprising a price for calculating the fee that varies depending on the designated output level of generating unit for the usage period; and billing the calculated fee to the customer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Mark Stewart Schroder, Jeffrey Richard Lucas, Sergey Anatolyevich Tikhonovsky
  • Publication number: 20190205952
    Abstract: A method relating to pricing under a contractual service agreement between a customer and a service provider, where the service provider provides maintenance services on a generating unit for a fee. An output of the generating unit is produced by a generator to which the generating unit is operably connected. The method comprising: determining a usage period for the generating unit; monitoring the output of the generating unit during the usage period and, therefrom, designating an output level for the generating unit for the usage period; calculating the fee for the usage period pursuant to a variable pricing plan, the variable pricing plan comprising a price for calculating the fee that varies depending on the designated output level of generating unit for the usage period; and billing the calculated fee to the customer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2017
    Publication date: July 4, 2019
    Applicant: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Mark Stewart Schroder, Jeffrey Richard Lucas, Sergey Anatolyevich Tikhonovsky