Patents by Inventor Michail Zak

Michail Zak 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: 7080290
    Abstract: A generalized formalism for diagnostics and prognostics in an instrumented system which can provide sensor data and discrete system variable takes into consideration all standard forms of data, both time-varying (sensor or extracted feature) quantities and discrete measurements, embedded physical and symbolic models, and communication with other autonomy-enabling components such as planners and schedulers. This approach can be adapted to on-board or off-board implementations with no change to the underlying principles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2006
    Assignee: California Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Mark L. James, Ryan M. E. Mackey, Han G. Park, Michail Zak
  • Patent number: 6625569
    Abstract: A general method of anomaly detection from time-correlated sensor data is disclosed. Multiple time-correlated signals are received. Their cross-signal behavior is compared against a fixed library of invariants. The library is constructed during a training process, which is itself data-driven using the same time-correlated signals. The method is applicable to a broad class of problems and is designed to respond to any departure from normal operation, including faults or events that lie outside the training envelope.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2003
    Assignee: California Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Mark L. James, Ryan M. E. Mackey, Han G. Park, Michail Zak
  • Publication number: 20030018928
    Abstract: A general method of anomaly detection from time-correlated sensor data is disclosed. Multiple time-correlated signals are received. Their cross-signal behavior is compared against a fixed library of invariants. The library is constructed during a training process, which is itself data-driven using the same time-correlated signals. The method is applicable to a broad class of problems and is designed to respond to any departure from normal operation, including faults or events that lie outside the training envelope.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2002
    Publication date: January 23, 2003
    Applicant: California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California
    Inventors: Mark L. James, Ryan M.E. Mackey, Han G. Park, Michail Zak
  • Publication number: 20030014692
    Abstract: A generalized formalism for diagnostics and prognostics in an instrumented system which can provide sensor data and discrete system variable takes into consideration all standard forms of data, both time-varying (sensor or extracted feature) quantities and discrete measurements, embedded physical and symbolic models, and communication with other autonomy-enabling components such as planners and schedulers. This approach can be adapted to on-board or off-board implementations with no change to the underlying principles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2002
    Publication date: January 16, 2003
    Applicant: California Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Mark L. James, Ryan M. E. MacKey, Han G. Park, Michail Zak
  • Patent number: 5680515
    Abstract: The present invention enhances the bit resolution of a CCD/CID MVM processor by storing each bit of each matrix element as a separate CCD charge packet. The bits of each input vector are separately multiplied by each bit of each matrix element in massive parallelism and the resulting products are combined appropriately to synthesize the correct product. In another aspect of the invention, such arrays are employed in a pseudo-spectral method of the invention, in which partial differential equations are solved by expressing each derivative analytically as matrices, and the state function is updated at each computation cycle by multiplying it by the matrices. The matrices are treated as synaptic arrays of a neural network and the state function vector elements are treated as neurons. In a further aspect of the invention, moving target detection is performed by driving the soliton equation with a vector of detector outputs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 1995
    Date of Patent: October 21, 1997
    Assignee: California Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Jacob Barhen, Nikzad Toomarian, Amir Fijany, Michail Zak
  • Patent number: 5491650
    Abstract: The present invention discloses increased bit resolution of a charge coupled device (CCD)/charge injection device (CID) matrix vector multiplication (MVM) processor by storing each bit of each matrix element as a separate CCD charge packet. The bits of each input vector are separately multiplied by each bit of each matrix element in massive parallelism and the resulting products are combined appropriately to synthesize the correct product. In addition, such arrays are employed in a pseudo-spectral method of the invention, in which partial differential equations are solved by expressing each derivative analytically as matrices, and the state function is updated at each computation cycle by multiplying it by the matrices. The matrices are treated as synaptic arrays of a neutral network and the state function vector elements are treated as neurons. Further, moving target detection is performed by driving the soliton equation with a vector of detector outputs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 1993
    Date of Patent: February 13, 1996
    Assignee: California Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Jacob Barhen, Nikzad Toomarian, Amir Fijany, Michail Zak