Patents by Inventor Mark Daniel Winters

Mark Daniel Winters 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 to analyze optical images for quantification of manufacturing part quality
    Patent number: 9934564
    Abstract: Example systems and methods are described for validating a manufacturing tolerance of a structure. A method includes receiving a digital image of a cross-section of the structure at an interface of a computing device, identifying an outer boundary of the structure from the digital image, selecting a region of the outer boundary based on changes in a first derivative or a second derivative of points of the outer boundary, identifying a geometry feature of the region of the outer boundary by comparison to stored templates of geometry features of the structure, making a comparison of the geometry feature of the region of the outer boundary to a manufacturing specification for a corresponding portion of the structure, and determining whether the structure is within a manufacturing tolerance based on the comparison of the geometry feature to the manufacturing specification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2018
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Hong Hue Tat, Mark Daniel Winters, Yuan-Jye Wu
  • Methods and Systems to Analyze Optical Images for Quantification of Manufacturing Part Quality
    Publication number: 20180040116
    Abstract: Example systems and methods are described for validating a manufacturing tolerance of a structure. A method includes receiving a digital image of a cross-section of the structure at an interface of a computing device, identifying an outer boundary of the structure from the digital image, selecting a region of the outer boundary based on changes in a first derivative or a second derivative of points of the outer boundary, identifying a geometry feature of the region of the outer boundary by comparison to stored templates of geometry features of the structure, making a comparison of the geometry feature of the region of the outer boundary to a manufacturing specification for a corresponding portion of the structure, and determining whether the structure is within a manufacturing tolerance based on the comparison of the geometry feature to the manufacturing specification.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2016
    Publication date: February 8, 2018
    Inventors: Hong Hue Tat, Mark Daniel Winters, Yuan-Jye Wu