Patents by Inventor John Joseph FREER

John Joseph FREER 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).

  • Methods and systems for implementing distributed ledger manufacturing history
    Patent number: 11150634
    Abstract: An exemplary additive manufacturing method includes receiving a build file comprising instructions for controlling the manufacturing hardware to generate an object, receiving a material identifier indicating a particular lot of manufacturing media, validating the build file and the material identifier via a distributed ledger to verify both an author of the build file and an origin of the particular lot of manufacturing media, causing manufacturing hardware to generate the object using the build file and the particular lot of manufacturing media, generating an object manufactured transaction to the distributed ledger indicating a result of the validation of the origin of the at least one of the build file or the material identifier, and certifying the object in response to verifying the author of the build file and the origin of the particular lot of manufacturing media, and wherein the object manufactured transaction indicates that the object is certified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: John Joseph Freer, Richard Paul Messmer, Arvind Rangarajan, David Robert Safford
  • Methods and systems for implementing distributed ledger manufacturing history
    Patent number: 10754323
    Abstract: Some aspects are directed to additive manufacturing systems. An example additive manufacturing system controller is configured to receive a build file comprising instructions for controlling the manufacturing hardware to generate the object, receive a material identifier indicating a particular lot of manufacturing media, validate the build file and the material identifier via a distributed ledger to verify at least one of an author of the build file or an origin of the particular lot of manufacturing media, control the manufacturing hardware using the build file to generate the object using the particular lot of manufacturing media, and in response to completion of the generation of the object, generate an object manufactured transaction to the distributed ledger indicating a result of the validation of the origin of the at least one of the build file or the material identifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: John Joseph Freer, Richard Paul Messmer, Arvind Rangarajan, David Robert Safford
  • METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR IMPLEMENTING DISTRIBUTED LEDGER MANUFACTURING HISTORY
    Publication number: 20200233398
    Abstract: An exemplary additive manufacturing method includes receiving a build file comprising instructions for controlling the manufacturing hardware to generate an object, receiving a material identifier indicating a particular lot of manufacturing media, validating the build file and the material identifier via a distributed ledger to verify both an author of the build file and an origin of the particular lot of manufacturing media, causing manufacturing hardware to generate the object using the build file and the particular lot of manufacturing media, generating an object manufactured transaction to the distributed ledger indicating a result of the validation of the origin of the at least one of the build file or the material identifier, and certifying the object in response to verifying the author of the build file and the origin of the particular lot of manufacturing media, and wherein the object manufactured transaction indicates that the object is certified.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2020
    Publication date: July 23, 2020
    Inventors: John Joseph Freer, Richard Paul Messmer, Arvind Rangarajan, David Robert Safford
  • METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR IMPLEMENTING DISTRIBUTED LEDGER MANUFACTURING HISTORY
    Publication number: 20180173203
    Abstract: Some aspects are directed to additive manufacturing systems. An example additive manufacturing system controller is configured to receive a build file comprising instructions for controlling the manufacturing hardware to generate the object, receive a material identifier indicating a particular lot of manufacturing media, validate the build file and the material identifier via a distributed ledger to verify at least one of an author of the build file or an origin of the particular lot of manufacturing media, control the manufacturing hardware using the build file to generate the object using the particular lot of manufacturing media, and in response to completion of the generation of the object, generate an object manufactured transaction to the distributed ledger indicating a result of the validation of the origin of the at least one of the build file or the material identifier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2017
    Publication date: June 21, 2018
    Inventors: John Joseph FREER, Richard Paul MESSMER, Arvind RANGARAJAN, David Robert SAFFORD