Patents by Inventor Joseph S. Oliveira

Joseph S. Oliveira 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).

  • Combinatorial evaluation of systems including decomposition of a system representation into fundamental cycles
    Patent number: 7394472
    Abstract: One embodiment of the present invention includes a computer operable to represent a physical system with a graphical data structure corresponding to a matroid. The graphical data structure corresponds to a number of vertices and a number of edges that each correspond to two of the vertices. The computer is further operable to define a closed pathway arrangement with the graphical data structure and identify each different one of a number of fundamental cycles by evaluating a different respective one of the edges with a spanning tree representation. The fundamental cycles each include three or more of the vertices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2008
    Assignee: Battelle Memorial Institute
    Inventors: Joseph S. Oliveira, Janet B. Jones-Oliveira, Colin G. Bailey, Dean W. Gull