Patents by Inventor Kevin Thomas McCarthy
Kevin Thomas McCarthy 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).
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Patent number: 12226370Abstract: Disclosed herein are glass pharmaceutical vials having sidewalls of reduced thickness. In embodiments, the glass pharmaceutical vial may include a glass body comprising a sidewall enclosing an interior volume. An outer diameter D of the glass body is equal to a diameter d1 of a glass vial of size X as defined by ISO 8362-1, wherein X is one of 2R, 3R, 4R, 6R, 8R, 10R, 15R, 20R, 25R, 30R, 50R, and 100R as defined by ISO 8362-1. However, the sidewall of the glass pharmaceutical vial comprises an average wall thickness Ti that is less than or equal to 0.85*s1, wherein s1 is a wall thickness of the glass vial of size X as defined by ISO 8362-1 and X is one of 2R, 3R, 4R, 6R, 8R, 10R, 15R, 20R, 25R, 30R, 50R, and 100R as defined by ISO 8362-1.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2023Date of Patent: February 18, 2025Assignee: Corning IncorporatedInventors: Christie Leigh McCarthy, Sinue Gomez-Mower, Weirong Jiang, Joseph Michael Matusick, Steven Edward DeMartino, Connor Thomas O'Malley, John Stephen Peanasky, Shivani Rao Polasani, James Ernest Webb, Michael Clement Ruotolo, Jr., Bryan James Musk, Jared Seaman Aaldenberg, Eric Lewis Allington, Douglas Miles Noni, Jr., Amber Leigh Tremper, Kristen Dae Waight, Kevin Patrick McNelis, Patrick Joseph Cimo, Christy Lynn Chapman, Robert Anthony Schaut
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Patent number: 9665090Abstract: In one embodiment, a system includes system includes a data collection system configured to collect a data from a control system. The system further includes a configuration management system configured to manage a hardware configuration and a software configuration for the control system based on the data. The system additionally includes a rule engine configured to use the data as input and to output a health assessment by using a rule database configured to store at least one rule, and a report generator configured to provide a health assessment for the control system. The system also includes a rule editor configured to create the at least one rule, update the at least one rule, delete the at least one rule, or a combination thereof.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2012Date of Patent: May 30, 2017Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Karthikeyan Loganathan, Ayush Srivastava, Paul Venditti, Ramesh Pai Brahmavar, Goutam Banerjee, Kevin Thomas McCarthy
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Patent number: 9218233Abstract: In one embodiment, a system includes a data collection system configured to collect a data from a control system. The system further includes a configuration management system configured to manage a hardware configuration and a software configuration for the control system based on the data. The system additionally includes a rule engine configured to use the data as input and to output a health assessment by using a rule database, and a report generator configured to provide a health assessment for the control system.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2012Date of Patent: December 22, 2015Inventors: Paul Venditti, Ramesh Pai Brahmavar, Ayush Srivastava, Michael Scott Skalyo, Kevin Thomas McCarthy
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Patent number: 9201113Abstract: A computing device for use in performing a redundancy test on a turbine assembly and a turbine control system including a plurality of controllers each configured to independently control operation of the turbine assembly is provided. The computing device configured to be coupled to the turbine control system and configured to determine whether a plurality of test conditions are satisfied, display to a user an indication of which test conditions are satisfied, and test, in response to a user input, the plurality of controllers.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2012Date of Patent: December 1, 2015Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Kevin Thomas McCarthy, Ayush Srivastava, Paul Venditti, Parag Arvind Marathe, Paul Thomas Schweitzer
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Patent number: 9043263Abstract: In one embodiment, a system includes a data collection system configured to collect a data from a control system by using an offline mode of operations. The system further includes a configuration management system configured to manage a hardware configuration and a software configuration for the control system based on the data. The system additionally includes a rule engine configured to use the data as input and to output a health assessment by using a rule database, and a report generator configured to provide a health assessment for the control system.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2012Date of Patent: May 26, 2015Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Kevin Thomas McCarthy, Ramesh Pai Brahmavar, Paul Venditti, Goutam Banerjee
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Publication number: 20140172346Abstract: A computing device for use in performing a redundancy test on a turbine assembly and a turbine control system including a plurality of controllers each configured to independently control operation of the turbine assembly is provided. The computing device configured to be coupled to the turbine control system and configured to determine whether a plurality of test conditions are satisfied, display to a user an indication of which test conditions are satisfied, and test, in response to a user input, the plurality of controllers.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 17, 2012Publication date: June 19, 2014Applicant: General Electric CompanyInventors: Kevin Thomas McCarthy, Ayush Srivastava, Paul Venditti, Parag Arvind Marathe, Paul Thomas Schweitzer
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Publication number: 20140056705Abstract: A load control system for a wind turbine and a method for controlling wind turbine loading are provided. The system includes a sensor assembly. The sensor assembly includes a light source mounted to a rotor shaft and configured to emit a light, and a sensor mounted to the rotor shaft and configured to sense the light and measure a location of the light in a plane perpendicular to a longitudinal axis. The system further includes a controller communicatively coupled to the sensor assembly.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 21, 2012Publication date: February 27, 2014Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventors: Danian Zheng, Hua Xia, Kevin Thomas McCarthy, Dale Robert Mashtare
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Publication number: 20140031957Abstract: In one embodiment, a system includes a data collection system configured to collect a data from a control system. The system further includes a configuration management system configured to manage a hardware configuration and a software configuration for the control system based on the data. The system additionally includes a rule engine configured to use the data as input and to output a health assessment by using a rule database, and a report generator configured to provide a health assessment for the control system.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 24, 2012Publication date: January 30, 2014Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventors: Paul Venditti, Ramesh Pai Brahmavar, Ayush Srivastava, Michael Scott Skalyo, Kevin Thomas McCarthy
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Publication number: 20140032172Abstract: A system includes a human machine interface (HMI) health advisor system including a health advisor suite having a processor. The processor of the health advisor suite is configured to receive operational data regarding a HMI device, wherein the operational data includes configuration data, log data, or a combination thereof. The processor is also configured to apply a plurality of rules to the operational data to proactively determine a HMI issue. The processor is also configured to identify a solution to the HMI issue from a plurality of known solutions to HMI issues. The processor is further configured to generate a configuration report for the HMI device based on the configuration data and to generate a health assessment report for the HMI device. Additionally, the health assessment report comprises the HMI issue and the solution to the HMI issue.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 24, 2012Publication date: January 30, 2014Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventors: Kevin Thomas McCarthy, Raghavendra Prasad Rachepalli, Goutam Banerjee, Ayush Srivastava
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Publication number: 20140031958Abstract: In one embodiment, a system includes system includes a data collection system configured to collect a data from a control system. The system further includes a configuration management system configured to manage a hardware configuration and a software configuration for the control system based on the data. The system additionally includes a rule engine configured to use the data as input and to output a health assessment by using a rule database configured to store at least one rule, and a report generator configured to provide a health assessment for the control system. The system also includes a rule editor configured to create the at least one rule, update the at least one rule, delete the at least one rule, or a combination thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 24, 2012Publication date: January 30, 2014Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventors: Karthikeyan Loganathan, Ayush Srivastava, Paul Venditti, Ramesh Pai Brahmavar, Goutam Banerjee, Kevin Thomas McCarthy
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Publication number: 20140032470Abstract: In one embodiment, a system includes a data collection system configured to collect a data from a control system by using an offline mode of operations. The system further includes a configuration management system configured to manage a hardware configuration and a software configuration for the control system based on the data. The system additionally includes a rule engine configured to use the data as input and to output a health assessment by using a rule database, and a report generator configured to provide a health assessment for the control system.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 24, 2012Publication date: January 30, 2014Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventors: Kevin Thomas McCarthy, Ramesh Pai Brahmavar, Paul Venditti, Goutam Banerjee
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Publication number: 20140032169Abstract: In one embodiment, a system includes system includes a data collection system configured to collect a data from a control system. The system further includes a configuration management system configured to manage a hardware configuration and a software configuration for the control system based on the data. The system additionally includes a rule engine configured to use the data as input and to output a health assessment by using a rule database configured to store at least one rule, and a report generator configured to provide a health assessment for the control system. The system also includes a rule editor configured to create the at least one rule, update the at least one rule, delete the at least one rule, or a combination thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 24, 2012Publication date: January 30, 2014Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventors: Kevin Thomas McCarthy, Ramesh Pai Brahmavar, Ayush Srivastava, Paul Venditti, Karthikeyan Loganathan, Goutam Banerjee, Parag Arvind Marathe
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Patent number: 8437880Abstract: A system and method for enhancing operation of a power generation system. The method includes receiving forecasts at a predictive control unit. The method also includes accessing via a controller real-time lifing models or near real-time lifing models in the predictive control unit. Additionally, the method includes accessing via the controller an enhancer configured to simulate operation of a power generating unit in the power generation system to generate an enhancement of the power generation system based on the forecasts and the real-time or near real-time lifing models.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2010Date of Patent: May 7, 2013Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Christopher Eugene Long, Robert Joseph Iasillo, Jonathan Carl Thatcher, Kevin Thomas McCarthy, Sameer Vittal
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Patent number: 8333551Abstract: A device operating in an environment includes a fiber optic sensing system having one or more fiber optic sensors disposed in the device and configured to detect one or more parameters related to the device. The parameters may include temperature, strain, pressure, vibration, or combinations thereof.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2007Date of Patent: December 18, 2012Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Eric John Ruggiero, Kevin Thomas McCarthy, Christopher Edward Wolfe, Hua Xia, Bala Corattiyil, Kenneth Lee Fisher
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Patent number: 8306373Abstract: A fiber Bragg grating multi-point temperature sensing system comprises a fiber sensing cable package and a plurality of clamping devices distributed along an inner surface of a wall in a circumferential direction for securing the fiber sensing cable package. The fiber sensing cable package comprises a fiber Bragg grating based sensing cable comprising at least one optical fiber, a plurality of Bragg gratings inscribed in the optical fiber, and a fabric layer and a sheath tube surrounding the optical fiber. The multi-point fiber temperature sensing system comprises a light source for transmitting light to the Bragg gratings based sensing cable package, and a detector module receiving reflected signal. Each clamping device comprises a radiation tee and defines at least one mounting hole for securing the fiber sensing cable.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2009Date of Patent: November 6, 2012Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Hua Xia, Kevin Thomas McCarthy, Michael Joseph Krok, Boon Kwee Lee, Christian Joseph Wagner, Ronald Kevin Gilstrap, James Richard Nutt, Kung-Li Deng, David Robert O'Connor, Juntao Wu, James Gerard Lopez
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Patent number: 8280202Abstract: A fiber-optic dynamic sensing module comprises a support member, a beam extending from the support member, and a pre-strained fiber Bragg grating sensor and a strain-free fiber Bragg grating sensor mounted on the beam. The pre-strained and strain-free fiber Bragg grating sensors each comprise a Bragg grating inscribed in a fiber. The Bragg grating of the pre-strained fiber Bragg grating sensor is packaged more tightly along a longitudinal direction of the beam than the Bragg grating of the strain-free fiber Bragg grating sensor.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 2009Date of Patent: October 2, 2012Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Hua Xia, Kevin Thomas McCarthy, Jeffrey Scott Goldmeer, Ertan Yilmaz, Ted Carlton Kreutz, Clayton Ming Young, Russell Stephen Demuth, Hunt Adams Sutherland
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Patent number: 8240913Abstract: A device includes a stationary, rotary component, and a fiber optic sensing system. The fiber optic sensing system includes a cable having one or more fiber optic sensors disposed on the stationary component, the rotary component, or combinations thereof. The fiber optic sensing system is configured to detect one or more first parameters including temperature, strain, pressure, vibration, torque; or combinations thereof related to the stationary component, the rotary component, or combinations thereof. The one or more first parameters is used to determine one or more second parameters including thermal expansion, clearance, fluid flow rate variation, condensation, fluid leakage, thermal loss, life, thermal stress, or combinations thereof related to the stationary component, the rotary component, or combinations thereof.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2008Date of Patent: August 14, 2012Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Danian Zheng, Norman Arnold Turnquist, Peter John Eisenzopf, Kevin Thomas McCarthy, Hua Xia, Roy Paul Swintek
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Publication number: 20120201489Abstract: A method includes transmitting light through at least one transmission optical fiber towards a target, receiving light reflected from the target through at least one signal optical fiber, filtering the received light at least two different wavelengths, and using the filtered light to detect a clearance variation. An optical fiber probe includes a plurality of optical fibers, a moisture-resistant enclosure enclosing the optical fibers, a hydrophobic layer situated over an end of the optical fiber probe for preventing moisture from reaching the optical fibers, and a broadband transmission layer between ends of the optical fibers and the hydrophobic layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 2, 2011Publication date: August 9, 2012Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventors: Danian Zheng, Peter John Eisenzopf, Kevin Thomas McCarthy, Roy Paul Swintek, Norman Arnold Turnquist, Hua Xia
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Patent number: 8180185Abstract: A fiber optic sensor is provided. The fiber optic sensor includes a fiber core having a plurality of grating elements wherein, the grating elements comprise a periodic or a quasiperiodic modulated microcrystalline and silicon dioxide tetrahedral structure and a cladding disposed about the fiber core.Type: GrantFiled: February 5, 2008Date of Patent: May 15, 2012Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Hua Xia, Mahadevan Balasubramaniam, Jie Jiang, Huageng Luo, Abdul Rahman Abdallah Al-Khalidy, Clayton Ming Young, Kevin Thomas McCarthy
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Patent number: 8135247Abstract: A fiber sensor package is disclosed. The fiber sensor package includes an interconnection between a first optical fiber and a second optical fiber within a tubing such that the first and second optical fibers are at least partially disposed within that tubing. A bonding material is disposed across an edge of the interconnection around at least a part of the circumferential surfaces of the first and second fibers, holds rigid the interconnection of the first and second optical fibers. The methods of preparing the package, and the examples of systems benefiting from the fiber sensor package of this invention are also described.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2009Date of Patent: March 13, 2012Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Hua Xia, James Michael Storey, Aaron John Avagliano, Aditya Kumar, Kevin Thomas McCarthy, Juntao Wu, Cheryl Zhan