Patents by Inventor Michelle Reneé Irwin

Michelle Reneé Irwin 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).

  • Generating a reliability analysis by identifying casual relationships between events in an event-based manufacturing system
    Patent number: 7221987
    Abstract: Analyzing an event chronology record to permit identification of periods of a production sequence that correspond to a high probability of failure. Systems and methods include receiving an event chronology for a particular machine in the production sequence and for a particular time interval. A reliability analysis system accesses process flow information to determine whether a particular event in the event chronology is related to a subsequent adverse event within a predefined event window.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2007
    Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas Arthur Bett, Tanakon Ungpiyakul, Walter Caswell Reade, Michelle Reneé Irwin, Jeremy Brian Cannady, Babe Bedenbaugh