Patents by Inventor Nicholas Visser

Nicholas Visser 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: 10460610
    Abstract: A system, computer-readable medium, and a method including obtaining flight data for a prescribed flight from at least one of an airborne system of a particular aircraft to execute the prescribed flight and a system other than the airborne system of the particular aircraft having a source of data related to the prescribed flight, the flight data including specific details relating to at least one of the particular aircraft and parameters of the prescribed flight; performing, by a processor of an external computational asset and based on the obtained flight data, a control optimization to generate optimized path specific controls for the prescribed flight; transmitting the optimized path specific controls via a communication uplink from the external computational asset to the particular aircraft; and guiding, in response to receiving the optimized path specific controls by the particular aircraft, the particular aircraft in accordance with the optimized path specific controls to execute the prescribed flight.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Eric Richard Westervelt, MacKenzie Cumings, Mark Lawrence Darnell, David Lax, Liling Ren, Nicholas Visser
  • Publication number: 20180349322
    Abstract: Generation of models in real time embedded systems that approximate non-embedded models while reducing a complexity associated with the non-embedded models is provided herein. A system can comprise a memory coupled to a processor. The memory stores executable components executed by the processor. The executable components can comprise an evaluation manager component that identifies an input parameter of a first model based on a defined output parameter of the first model and a relation manager component that determines one or more relations in the first model. Relations of the one or more relations can comprise an intermediary parameter determined based on the input parameter and the defined output parameter of the first model. Further, the system can comprise a model generator manager component that generates a second model that approximates the first model and includes a replication of the one or more relations of the first model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2017
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Inventors: MacKenzie Dylan Cumings, Robert Schroer, Sean Hwang, Nicholas Visser, Sridhar Adibhatla
  • Patent number: 10106267
    Abstract: Systems and methods for enhancing engine performance based on atmospheric ice particles are provided. For example, a method can include selecting one or more points along a flight path of an aircraft and receiving a reflectivity measurement for each of the one or more points obtained using a device located on the aircraft. The method can further include determining an estimate of ice water content for each of the one or more points based at least in part on the reflectivity measurements; and controlling at least one component of the aircraft engine (e.g., a variable bleed valve) based at least in part on the estimate of ice water content for at least one of the plurality of points.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2018
    Assignee: GE Aviation Systems LLC
    Inventors: Nicholas Visser, Sridhar Adibhatla, David Michael Lax
  • Patent number: 9938017
    Abstract: Systems and methods for enhancing engine performance based on atmospheric rain conditions are provided. For example, a method can include selecting one or more points along a flight path of an aircraft and receiving a radar reflectivity measurement for each of the one or more points obtained using a radar device located on the aircraft. The method can further include determining an estimate of liquid water content for each of the one or more points based at least in part on the radar reflectivity measurements; and controlling at least one component of the aircraft engine (e.g., a variable stator vane) based at least in part on the estimate of liquid water content for at least one of the plurality of points.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: GE AVIATION SYSTEMS LLC
    Inventors: Nicholas Visser, Sridhar Adibhatla, David Michael Lax
  • Publication number: 20180096608
    Abstract: A system, computer-readable medium, and a method including obtaining flight data for a prescribed flight from at least one of an airborne system of a particular aircraft to execute the prescribed flight and a system other than the airborne system of the particular aircraft having a source of data related to the prescribed flight, the flight data including specific details relating to at least one of the particular aircraft and parameters of the prescribed flight; performing, by a processor of an external computational asset and based on the obtained flight data, a control optimization to generate optimized path specific controls for the prescribed flight; transmitting the optimized path specific controls via a communication uplink from the external computational asset to the particular aircraft; and guiding, in response to receiving the optimized path specific controls by the particular aircraft, the particular aircraft in accordance with the optimized path specific controls to execute the prescribed flight.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2016
    Publication date: April 5, 2018
    Inventors: Eric Richard WESTERVELT, MacKenzie CUMINGS, Mark Lawrence DARNELL, David LAX, Liling REN, Nicholas VISSER
  • Publication number: 20170121028
    Abstract: Systems and methods for enhancing engine performance based on atmospheric ice particles are provided. For example, a method can include selecting one or more points along a flight path of an aircraft and receiving a reflectivity measurement for each of the one or more points obtained using a device located on the aircraft. The method can further include determining an estimate of ice water content for each of the one or more points based at least in part on the reflectivity measurements; and controlling at least one component of the aircraft engine (e.g., a variable bleed valve) based at least in part on the estimate of ice water content for at least one of the plurality of points.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2015
    Publication date: May 4, 2017
    Inventors: Nicholas Visser, Sridhar Adibhatla, David Michael Lax
  • Publication number: 20170121027
    Abstract: Systems and methods for enhancing engine performance based on atmospheric rain conditions are provided. For example, a method can include selecting one or more points along a flight path of an aircraft and receiving a radar reflectivity measurement for each of the one or more points obtained using a radar device located on the aircraft. The method can further include determining an estimate of liquid water content for each of the one or more points based at least in part on the radar reflectivity measurements; and controlling at least one component of the aircraft engine (e.g., a variable stator vane) based at least in part on the estimate of liquid water content for at least one of the plurality of points.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2015
    Publication date: May 4, 2017
    Inventors: Nicholas Visser, Sridhar Adibhatla, David Michael Lax