Patents by Inventor Marc Gavin Lindenmuth

Marc Gavin Lindenmuth 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: 10489752
    Abstract: This disclosure provides systems for using failure mode ranking in an asset management system to generate asset maintenance outputs. Operational data, failure mode models, and configuration data for an asset, such as a complex electromechanical system, are related to failure prevention analytics configurations through failure mode rankings to enable the asset management system to reduce a future ranking of potential failure modes by changing the present configuration of the asset to include a recommended failure prevention analytics configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: John Robert Korsedal, IV, Carlos Andres Hein, Christopher D. Higgins, Marc Gavin Lindenmuth, Molli Anne Dill, Yan Zhao
  • Patent number: 10452041
    Abstract: A dispatch optimization system leverages ambient and market forecast data as well as asset performance and parts-life models to generate recommended operating schedules for gas turbines or other power-generating plant assets that substantially maximize profit while satisfying parts-life constraints. The system generates operating profiles that balance optimal peak fire opportunities with optimal cold part-load opportunities within a maintenance interval or other operating horizon. During real-time operation of the assets, the optimization system can update the operating schedule based on actual market, ambient, and operating data. The system provides information that can assist operators in determining suitable conditions in which to cold part-load or peak-fire the assets in an optimally profitable manner without violating target life constraints.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Anup Menon, Sree Rama Raju Vetukuri, Olugbenga Anubi, Justin John, Marc Gavin Lindenmuth, Aditya Kumar, Ruijie Shi, Jonathan Thatcher
  • Publication number: 20180293600
    Abstract: An architecture and techniques for determining operation of energy-producing equipment that can increase profitability are presented. Such can be surfaced in easily understood financial market paradigms that reflect relatively complex physical models associated with the equipment. For example, buy data and sell data can be presented that reflect determined buy opportunities and determined sell opportunities. The buy opportunities can represent conditions in which it is advised to operate the equipment according to a cold part load protocol and the sell opportunities can represent conditions in which it is advised to operate the equipment according to a peak fire protocol.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2017
    Publication date: October 11, 2018
    Inventors: Jonathan Carl Thatcher, Marc Gavin Lindenmuth, Frederick Block
  • Publication number: 20180284707
    Abstract: A dispatch optimization system leverages ambient and market forecast data as well as asset performance and parts-life models to generate recommended operating schedules for gas turbines or other power-generating plant assets that substantially maximize profit while satisfying parts-life constraints. The system generates operating profiles that balance optimal peak fire opportunities with optimal cold part-load opportunities within a maintenance interval or other operating horizon. During real-time operation of the assets, the optimization system can update the operating schedule based on actual market, ambient, and operating data. The system provides information that can assist operators in determining suitable conditions in which to cold part-load or peak-fire the assets in an optimally profitable manner without violating target life constraints.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2017
    Publication date: October 4, 2018
    Inventors: Anup Menon, Sree Rama Raju Vetukuri, Olugbenga Anubi, Justin John, Marc Gavin Lindenmuth, Aditya Kumar, RUIJIE SHI, Jonathan Thatcher
  • Publication number: 20180060832
    Abstract: This disclosure provides systems for using failure mode ranking in an asset management system to generate asset maintenance outputs. Operational data, failure mode models, and configuration data for an asset, such as a complex electromechanical system, are related to failure prevention analytics configurations through failure mode rankings to enable the asset management system to reduce a future ranking of potential failure modes by changing the present configuration of the asset to include a recommended failure prevention analytics configuration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2016
    Publication date: March 1, 2018
    Inventors: John Robert Korsedal, IV, Carlos Andres Hein, Christopher D. Higgins, Marc Gavin Lindenmuth, Molli Anne Dill, Yan Zhao
  • Patent number: 9255525
    Abstract: A system includes a controller configured to control one or more parameters of a gas turbine engine based on a feedback and a predicted lifespan of one or more components of the gas turbine engine to substantially maintain at least one of power output or heat rate above a threshold level in response to degradation or fouling of the gas turbine engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2016
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: David Spencer Ewens, John Rogers Huey, Marc Gavin Lindenmuth
  • Publication number: 20150086326
    Abstract: A method for optimizing performance of a compressor by adjusting the position of an inlet guide vane and the speed of a drive unit. In one embodiment, the method can compare measured values for operating flow rate and operating pressure for a combination of operating settings for the position and the speed against threshold values for each of these measured values. In this way, the method can identify “how” the compressor is operating and equate such operation to one of a plurality of operation scenarios. In turn, the method can provide an adjustment to one or both of the speed and the position that corresponds with such operating scenario. The method can also vet the selected adjustment to avoid operation of the compressor outside of its safe operating configurations, as defined for example by minimum and maximum values for the position of the inlet guide vane and the speed of the drive unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2014
    Publication date: March 26, 2015
    Inventors: Dale Eugene Husted, Marc Gavin Lindenmuth
  • Publication number: 20140156165
    Abstract: A system includes a controller configured to control one or more parameters of a gas turbine engine based on a feedback and a predicted lifespan of one or more components of the gas turbine engine to substantially maintain at least one of power output or heat rate above a threshold level in response to degradation or fouling of the gas turbine engine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2012
    Publication date: June 5, 2014
    Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: David Spencer Ewens, John Rogers Huey, Marc Gavin Lindenmuth
  • Publication number: 20140064919
    Abstract: Embodiments of a system and method can modify the position of diffuser vanes to improve performance of a compressor device, e.g., a centrifugal compressor. These embodiments include a feedback loop to manage the position of the diffuser vanes relative to one or more operating characteristics of an actuator that imparts movement to the diffuser vanes. In one embodiment, the system and method measure the operating characteristic for the actuator with the diffuser vanes at a first position and a second position. The system can compare values for the operating characteristics, wherein changes in the operating characteristic can identify other positions for the diffuser vanes to reduce input power the actuator consumes to move and/or maintain the position of the diffuser vanes. This feature can correlate with optimal performance of the compressor device and with peak compressor efficiency within the entire operating envelope of the compressor device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2013
    Publication date: March 6, 2014
    Applicant: Dresser, Inc.
    Inventors: Dale Eugene Husted, Marc Gavin Lindenmuth
  • Patent number: 8056062
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention are generally directed to systems and methods for converting application code in a turbine control system. According to one embodiment of the invention, a method for converting a turbine control system may be provided for. The method may include providing a first application code format including one or more elements, providing a second application code format including one or more elements, and identifying mappings of the one or more first application code format elements to the one or more second application code format elements. The method may further include retrieving a first control system application code written in the first application code format, and generating application data from the first control system application code based at least in part on the identified mappings. Additionally, the method may include converting the application data to a second control system application code written in the second application code format.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2011
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: David Thomas Bowers, Nagesh Laxminarayana Kurella, Patrick Joseph Conroy, Peter Frank Andrews, Marc Gavin Lindenmuth
  • Publication number: 20080288928
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention are generally directed to systems and methods for converting application code in a turbine control system. According to one embodiment of the invention, a method for converting a turbine control system may be provided for. The method may include providing a first application code format including one or more elements, providing a second application code format including one or more elements, and identifying mappings of the one or more first application code format elements to the one or more second application code format elements. The method may further include retrieving a first control system application code written in the first application code format, and generating application data from the first control system application code based at least in part on the identified mappings. Additionally, the method may include converting the application data to a second control system application code written in the second application code format.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2007
    Publication date: November 20, 2008
    Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: David Thomas Bowers, Nagesh Laxminarayana Kurella, Patrick Joseph Conroy, Peter Frank Andrews, Marc Gavin Lindenmuth
  • Publication number: 20080288120
    Abstract: Methods and systems for modifying a turbine control system may be provided for. A method may include replacing at least one legacy main controller processor communicating in a first communication protocol with a current main control processor communicating in a second communication protocol, retaining at least one legacy IO processor in communication with at least one turbine monitoring device communicating in the first communication protocol, and providing at least one converter in communication with the current main controller processor or processors and in communication with the legacy IO processor or processors. The converter may translate communications between the current main controller processor or processors and the legacy IO processor or processors by translating between the second communication protocol and the first communication protocol.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2007
    Publication date: November 20, 2008
    Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Marc Gavin Lindenmuth, Fred Henry Boettner, Stephen Jeffrey Sullivan, Brian Keith Holzman, Cecil Ernest Weaver, II, Scott Alan Kopcho, Eamon Patrick Gleeson