Patents by Inventor Nayeff A. Najjar

Nayeff A. Najjar 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: 11340154
    Abstract: A system and method that determines whether a heat exchanger within a complex networked system is fouling is provided. The system and method includes training classifiers indicative of a plurality of fouling conditions associated with the heat exchanger and testing the classifiers with optimal sensor data from optimal sensors to determine whether the fouling is being experienced by the heat exchanger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: THE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT
    Inventors: Nayeff A. Najjar, Shalabh Gupta, James Z. Hare, Gregory R. Leaper, Paul M. D'Orlando, Rhonda Walthall, Krishna Pattipati
  • Patent number: 10895523
    Abstract: A system and method that determines whether a heat exchanger within a complex networked system is fouling is provided. The system and method includes training classifiers indicative of a plurality of fouling conditions associated with the heat exchanger and testing the classifiers with optimal sensor data from optimal sensors to determine whether the fouling is being experienced by the heat exchanger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2021
    Assignee: THE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT
    Inventors: Nayeff A. Najjar, Shalabh Gupta, James Z. Hare, Gregory R. Leaper, Paul M. D'Orlando, Rhonda Walthall, Krishna Pattipati
  • Publication number: 20200408669
    Abstract: A system and method that determines whether a heat exchanger within a complex networked system is fouling is provided. The system and method includes training classifiers indicative of a plurality of fouling conditions associated with the heat exchanger and testing the classifiers with optimal sensor data from optimal sensors to determine whether the fouling is being experienced by the heat exchanger.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2020
    Publication date: December 31, 2020
    Inventors: Nayeff A. Najjar, Shalabh Gupta, James Z. Hare, Gregory R. Leaper, Paul M. D'Orlando, Rhonda Walthall, Krishna Pattipati
  • Patent number: 10288548
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for estimating a fouling state of a heat exchanger of an aircraft. Training sensor measurements are obtained of a parameter related to operation of the heat exchanger and a wavelet transform is applied to the training sensor measurements to obtain wavelet data. Data reduction is performed on the wavelet data to obtain representative features indicative of the training sensor measurements. A classifier is then trained to assign suitable fouling classes to the representative features. The trained classifier is used on testing sensor measurements from the heat exchanger to assign a fouling class to the testing sensor measurements in order to estimate the fouling state of the heat exchanger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2019
    Assignee: HAMILTON SUNDSTRAND CORPORATION
    Inventors: Andre A. Silva, Nayeff A. Najjar, Shalabh Gupta, Paul M. D'Orlando, Rhonda Dawn Walthall
  • Patent number: 10089204
    Abstract: A hierarchical fault detection and isolation system, method, and/or computer program product that facilitates fault detection and isolation in a complex networked system while reducing the computational complexity and false alarms is provided. The system, method, and/or computer program product utilizes a system level isolation and detection algorithm and a diagnostic tree to systematically isolate faulty sub-systems, components, etc. of the complex networked system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignees: HAMILTON SUNDSTRAND CORPORATION, THE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT
    Inventors: James Z. Hare, Shalabh Gupta, Nayeff A. Najjar, Paul M. D'Orlando, Rhonda Dawn Walthall
  • Publication number: 20160320291
    Abstract: A system and method that determines whether a heat exchanger within a complex networked system is fouling is provided. The system and method includes training classifiers indicative of a plurality of fouling conditions associated with the heat exchanger and testing the classifiers with optimal sensor data from optimal sensors to determine whether the fouling is being experienced by the heat exchanger.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2015
    Publication date: November 3, 2016
    Inventors: Nayeff A. Najjar, Shalabh Gupta, James Z. Hare, Gregory R. Leaper, Paul M. D'Orlando
  • Publication number: 20160306725
    Abstract: A hierarchical fault detection and isolation system, method, and/or computer program product that facilitates fault detection and isolation in a complex networked system while reducing the computational complexity and false alarms is provided. The system, method, and/or computer program product utilizes a system level isolation and detection algorithm and a diagnostic tree to systematically isolate faulty sub-systems, components, etc. of the complex networked system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2015
    Publication date: October 20, 2016
    Inventors: James Z. Hare, Shalabh Gupta, Nayeff A. Najjar, Paul M. D'Orlando, Rhonda Dawn Walthall
  • Publication number: 20160305865
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for estimating a fouling state of a heat exchanger of an aircraft. Training sensor measurements are obtained of a parameter related to operation of the heat exchanger and a wavelet transform is applied to the training sensor measurements to obtain wavelet data. Data reduction is performed on the wavelet data to obtain representative features indicative of the training sensor measurements. A classifier is then trained to assign suitable fouling classes to the representative features. The trained classifier is used on testing sensor measurements from the heat exchanger to assign a fouling class to the testing sensor measurements in order to estimate the fouling state of the heat exchanger.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2015
    Publication date: October 20, 2016
    Inventors: Andre A. Silva, Nayeff A. Najjar, Shalabh Gupta, Paul M. D'Orlando, Rhonda Dawn Walthall