Patents by Inventor Matthew Eason

Matthew Eason 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).

  • Active power transfer switch control to reduce service impacts due to electrical power interruptions
    Patent number: 9847673
    Abstract: To prevent overloading of a shared secondary power feed, active transfer switches are controlled to switch discrete hardware from the shared secondary to a corresponding primary power feed, even if such a primary is currently nonoperational thereby resulting in deactivation of such hardware. A threshold amount of power draw from the shared secondary is established, such as to ensure that failure of a single primary can be accommodated, and active transfer switches are controlled so as to prevent such a threshold from being exceeded. Alternatively, or in addition, active transfer switches are controlled such that they, in the event of an interruption in the power being provided by the primary power feed, either switch to the shared secondary or, in accordance with the aforementioned control, do not switch despite the interruption in power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2017
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Matthew Eason, Michael Myrah
  • ACTIVE POWER TRANSFER SWITCH CONTROL TO REDUCE SERVICE IMPACTS DUE TO ELECTRICAL POWER INTERRUPTIONS
    Publication number: 20170040837
    Abstract: To prevent overloading of a shared secondary power feed, active transfer switches are controlled to switch discrete hardware from the shared secondary to a corresponding primary power feed, even if such a primary is currently nonoperational thereby resulting in deactivation of such hardware. A threshold amount of power draw from the shared secondary is established, such as to ensure that failure of a single primary can be accommodated, and active transfer switches are controlled so as to prevent such a threshold from being exceeded. Alternatively, or in addition, active transfer switches are controlled such that they, in the event of an interruption in the power being provided by the primary power feed, either switch to the shared secondary or, in accordance with the aforementioned control, do not switch despite the interruption in power.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2015
    Publication date: February 9, 2017
    Inventors: Matthew Eason, Michael Myrah