Patents by Inventor Paul C. Hershey

Paul C. Hershey 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).

  • Publication number: 20250131301
    Abstract: A method includes obtaining, using at least one processing device of an electronic device, information defining a combinatorial logic gate design for a combinatorial logic circuit. The method also includes generating, using the at least one processing device, one or more polynomials representing operation of the combinatorial logic gate design. The method further includes mapping, using the at least one processing device, the one or more polynomials to one or more quantum polynomials, where each quantum polynomial has terms that are orthonormal. In addition, the method includes generating, using the at least one processing device, a quantum gate logic design based on the one or more quantum polynomials, where the quantum gate logic design is functionally equivalent to or better than the combinatorial logic gate design for the combinatorial logic circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2024
    Publication date: April 24, 2025
    Inventors: Paul C. Hershey, Vikram A. Prasad, Marcus A. Teter, Brianne R. Hoppes, Michael T. Bahns
  • Publication number: 20250124251
    Abstract: Systems, devices, methods, and computer-readable media for course of action (COA) analysis and execution. A method can include receiving COA data, coordinating, by an orchestrator service, simulation of performing COAs associated with the COA data, generating a graphical view of the simulation of the COAs including scores associated with each COA, implementing a COA of the COAs selected by the commander, receiving, from multiple applications information regarding a state of executing the COA, and providing a graphical view of the state of executing the COA including an overall map of a geographical region in which the COA is implemented, the graphical view including a dynamic location of the threat and threat mitigation activities, and a dynamic view of the LOS updated as the COA is implemented.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2023
    Publication date: April 17, 2025
    Inventors: Paul C. Hershey, Charles L. Taylor, David Morrison, Jennifer N. Coston, Rachel D. Coston
  • Publication number: 20240202534
    Abstract: A method includes obtaining, using at least one processing device, chat messages being sent to at least one user. The method also includes applying, using the at least one processing device, at least one machine learning model to (i) correct one or more corruptions or deviations contained in at least one of the chat messages and (ii) prioritize the chat messages. The method further includes initiating, using the at least one processing device, display of the prioritized chat messages to the at least one user in a graphical user interface. The at least one machine learning model may include (i) a first machine learning model trained to correct the one or more corruptions or deviations and (ii) a second machine learning model trained to prioritize the chat messages. The first machine learning model may be trained using supervised learning. The second machine learning model may be trained using reinforcement learning.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2022
    Publication date: June 20, 2024
    Inventors: Paul C. Hershey, Mu-Cheng Wang, Jennifer N. Coston, Jennifer L. Ryan, Brian D. Scarpiniti, Darin G. Kabalkin, Christopher R. Horner
  • Publication number: 20240146656
    Abstract: In one aspect, a method includes receiving a packet at a first node from a second node, wherein the first node and the second node are part of a network; determining if congestion exists in a primary route used by the packet; processing a packet drop event to establish a secondary route for the packet in response to determining that the congestion exists in the primary route; and restoring use of the primary route if an expiration time has expired. The expiration time is adjusted by an elapsed period and a congestion condition within the network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2022
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: Raytheon Company
    Inventors: Paul C. Hershey, Mu-Cheng Wang
  • Patent number: 11816012
    Abstract: Techniques for multi-domain systems integration and evaluation are disclosed, including: obtaining criteria associated with a strategic objective; determining that a first system, operating in a first operating domain, is only partially capable of satisfying a first criterion in the criteria; determining that a second system, operating in a second operating domain that is different from the first operating domain, is capable of augmenting the first system with respect to satisfying the first criterion; responsive to determining that the second system is capable of augmenting the first system with respect to satisfying the first criterion, modeling a multi-domain system including at least a first component from the first system and at least a second component from the second system; and generating a performance metric that objectively evaluates capabilities of the multi-domain system against the criteria associated with the strategic objective.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: RAYTHEON COMPANY
    Inventors: Paul C. Hershey, Marcus A. Teter, Vikram A. Prasad
  • Publication number: 20230334351
    Abstract: Systems, devices, methods, and computer-readable media for normalized (threat, effect) pair algorithm generation. A method can include, for a defined scenario, identifying (threat, effect) pairs and for each (threat, effect) pair of the identified (threat, effect) pairs categorizing metrics of an algorithm, the algorithm indicating a probability of mitigating damage, by the effect, caused by the threat and generating a normalized algorithm for the identified (threat, effect) pair based on the metrics, the normalized algorithm operating based on input parameters of same units as other normalized algorithms.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2022
    Publication date: October 19, 2023
    Inventors: Paul C. Hershey, Brianne R. Hoppes, Kyle K. Ottinger, Bryan R. Harris, James E. Parry
  • Patent number: 11741152
    Abstract: Discussed generally are techniques for managing operation of programs in a sequential order. A method can include receiving a query for an image, the query indicating characteristics of the image, selecting a chain of algorithms configured to identify the image based on the characteristics, operating an algorithm of the selected chain of algorithms that operate in increased fidelity order on an input to produce a first result, operating a ground truth algorithm on the input to generate a second result, comparing the first and second results to determine a probability of correctness (Pc) and confidence interval (CI) for the algorithm, and altering the chain of algorithms based on the determined Pc and CI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: Raytheon Company
    Inventors: Paul C. Hershey, Mu-Cheng Wang, Michael L. Carroll
  • Publication number: 20230132315
    Abstract: Techniques for machine learning-assisted multi-domain planning are disclosed, including: receiving first situational data from a first domain and second situational data from a second domain; receiving first user input indicating an objective; applying at least the first situational data, the second situational data, and the objective to a machine learning model, to obtain one or more suggested courses of action for satisfying the objective using assets selected from a plurality of assets available in the first domain and the second domain; and presenting the one or more suggested courses of action in a graphical user interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2021
    Publication date: April 27, 2023
    Inventors: Paul C. Hershey, Brian David Scarpiniti
  • Publication number: 20230125362
    Abstract: Systems, devices, methods, and computer-readable media for concurrent visualization of sensor and communications operations. A method can include receiving mission data indicating a target, a sensor, a communications system, and an operation to be performed regarding the target, identifying one or more operational layer, functional layer, and physical layer models for the sensor and communications system, and a physical layer model for weather, identifying, based on a comparison of the physical models of the sensor and communications system to a propagation equation, any gaps or inconsistencies between the physical models of the sensor and communications system and the propagation equation, and executing a simulation model resulting in a visual display of execution of the mission using the sensor and the communications system, the simulation model generated based on a filler model that fills any identified gaps or fixes any identified inconsistencies.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2021
    Publication date: April 27, 2023
    Inventors: Paul C. Hershey, Vikram A. Prasad, Marcus Alton Teter
  • Publication number: 20230112257
    Abstract: Techniques for multi-domain systems integration and evaluation are disclosed, including: obtaining criteria associated with a strategic objective; determining that a first system, operating in a first operating domain, is only partially capable of satisfying a first criterion in the criteria; determining that a second system, operating in a second operating domain that is different from the first operating domain, is capable of augmenting the first system with respect to satisfying the first criterion; responsive to determining that the second system is capable of augmenting the first system with respect to satisfying the first criterion, modeling a multi-domain system including at least a first component from the first system and at least a second component from the second system; and generating a performance metric that objectively evaluates capabilities of the multi-domain system against the criteria associated with the strategic objective.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2021
    Publication date: April 13, 2023
    Inventors: Paul C. Hershey, Marcus A. Teter, Vikram A. Prasad
  • Patent number: 11488047
    Abstract: Discussed herein are devices, systems, and methods for autonomous, dynamic course of action (COA) generation and management. A method can include issuing a communication to one or more assets indicating operations of a first COA to be performed, receiving, by an intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) device, data indicating an unexpected event, not accounted for in the first COA, has occurred, in response to the data indicating the unexpected event, identifying a second COA or a portion of a second COA that satisfies a mission of the first COA and accounts for the unexpected event, and issuing a second communication to the one or more assets indicating one or more operations of the second COA to be performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: Raytheon Company
    Inventors: Paul C. Hershey, Michael P. Sica, Danielle J. Marchione, Marilyn W. Zett
  • Publication number: 20220019920
    Abstract: Evidence decay in PGMs is achieved using virtual evidence nodes that create and send lambda messages that when combined with the other evidence force specified beliefs onto the decaying evidence nodes. The virtual evidence nodes compute a step along a path from the decaying node's current belief to a target belief to determine the specified belief. Belief propagation is executed to process the pi and lambda messages to update the current beliefs for all nodes. Observation evidence is removed from the model. For each decaying node, belief propagation is executed absent the evidence of that node to generate an updated target belief. Following an observation, the node's belief will decay in a smooth, continuous manner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2020
    Publication date: January 20, 2022
    Inventors: Robert J. Cole, David J. Wisniewski, Ryan M. Kaulakis, Paul C. Hershey
  • Publication number: 20210334687
    Abstract: Discussed herein are devices, systems, and methods for autonomous, dynamic course of action (COA) generation and management. A method can include issuing a communication to one or more assets indicating operations of a first COA to be performed, receiving, by an intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) device, data indicating an unexpected event, not accounted for in the first COA, has occurred, in response to the data indicating the unexpected event, identifying a second COA or a portion of a second COA that satisfies a mission of the first COA and accounts for the unexpected event, and issuing a second communication to the one or more assets indicating one or more operations of the second COA to be performed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2020
    Publication date: October 28, 2021
    Inventors: Paul C. Hershey, Michael P. Sica, Danielle J. Marchione, Marilyn W. Zett
  • Publication number: 20210271703
    Abstract: Discussed generally are techniques for managing operation of programs in a sequential order. A method can include receiving a query for an image, the query indicating characteristics of the image, selecting a chain of algorithms configured to identify the image based on the characteristics, operating an algorithm of the selected chain of algorithms that operate in increased fidelity order on an input to produce a first result, operating a ground truth algorithm on the input to generate a second result, comparing the first and second results to determine a probability of correctness (Pc) and confidence interval (CI) for the algorithm, and altering the chain of algorithms based on the determined Pc and CI.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Publication date: September 2, 2021
    Inventors: Paul C. Hershey, Mu-Cheng Wang, Michael L. Carroll
  • Publication number: 20210149986
    Abstract: A computing machine stores representations of a plurality of assets. The computing machine receives a representation of a course of action (COA), the COA making use of all or a subset of the plurality of assets, a representation of movement of the all or the subset of the plurality of assets across time, and a goal. The computing machine identifies one or more mission phases and/or activities in the COA and one or more assets or asset pairings for use in each mission phase and/or activity. The computing machine computes a set of values for a given mission phase and/or activity. The computing machine logs the computed set of values. The computing machine stores metrics representing the computed set of values and the one or more mission phases and/or activities in the COA. The metrics are used to verify the results of the computations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2019
    Publication date: May 20, 2021
    Inventors: Paul C. Hershey, Marilyn W. Zett, Brianne R. Hoppes, Kyle K. Ottinger
  • Patent number: 10460252
    Abstract: A system and method improves the probability of correctly detecting an object from a collection of source data and reduces the processing load. A plurality of algorithms for a given data type are selected and ordered based on a cumulative trained probability of correctness (Pc) that each of the algorithms, which are processed in a chain and conditioned upon the result of the preceding algorithms, produce a correct result and a processing. The algorithms cull the source data to pass forward a reduced subset of source data in which the conditional probability of detecting the object is higher than the a priori probability of the algorithm detecting that same object. The Pc and its confidence interval is suitably computed and displayed for each algorithm and the chain and the final object detection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: Raytheon Company
    Inventors: Paul C. Hershey, Richard Radcliffe, Brianne R. Hoppes
  • Publication number: 20190188342
    Abstract: Generally discussed herein are systems, devices, and methods for mitigating damage caused by a hazard. A method can include identifying at least two effects that, with some probability, at least partially mitigate the hazard, identifying one or more vulnerabilities of the hazard that are the target for an effect of the identified effects, for each hazard, vulnerability pair, identifying a respective hazard model that simulates a state of the hazard in response to the effect, identifying effect models that simulate the respective effects, normalizing each of the identified effect models to a common model and determining a confidence level for each parameter of each normalized model, and simulating combinations of effects by combining normalized models and recording their combined effect on the hazard and a corresponding combined confidence level for the normalized models.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2018
    Publication date: June 20, 2019
    Inventors: Paul C. Hershey, Marilyn W. Zett, Michael A. Cianciosi, Brianne R. Hoppes
  • Patent number: 10323910
    Abstract: Embodiments of a method and apparatus for eliminating a missile threat are generally described herein. In some embodiments, the method includes identifying a vulnerability associated with the missile threat. The method can further include identifying a technique for exploiting the vulnerability to generate a vulnerability-technique (VT) pair. The method can further include applying a stochastic mathematical model (SMM) to generate a negation value, the negation value being representative of a probability that the technique of the respective VT pair will eliminate the threat by exploiting the vulnerability. The method can further include providing a recommendation for implementation the technique to eliminate the missile threat responsive to receiving a user selection of the technique, the user selection being selected based on the generated negation value. Other example methods, systems, and apparatuses are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2019
    Assignee: Raytheon Company
    Inventors: Paul C. Hershey, Joseph O. Chapa, Elizabeth Umberger
  • Patent number: 10068177
    Abstract: A method of fusing sensor detection probabilities. The fusing of detection probabilities may allow a first force to detect an imminent threat from a second force, with enough time to counter the threat. The detection probabilities may include accuracy probability of one or more sensors and an available time probability of the one or more sensors. The detection probabilities allow a determination of accuracy of intelligence gathered by each of the sensors. Also, the detection probabilities allow a determination of a probable benefit of an additional platform, sensor, or processing method. The detection probabilities allow a system or mission analyst to quickly decompose a problem space and build a detailed analysis of a scenario under different conditions including technology and environmental factors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2018
    Assignee: Raytheon Company
    Inventors: Paul C. Hershey, Thomas P. Deardorff, David J. Wisniewski, John J. Williams, Geoffrey Guisewite
  • Patent number: 9779191
    Abstract: Embodiments of an apparatus and method for assessing non-kinetic weapon performance for negating missile threats are generally described herein. In some embodiments, vulnerabilities of missile threats and techniques for negating the threats are identified. A probability of negation associated with an effectiveness of each of the techniques against the vulnerabilities is calculated. The calculated probability of negation of each technique against each vulnerability are conditioned at a plurality of times associated with a plurality of asymmetric missile defense (AMD) layer elements to produce temporal level probabilities of negation. Each temporal level probabilities of negation are conditioned based on a probability of validation of deployment and a probability of verification of mitigation to produce a battle damage assessment probability of negation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: Raytheon Company
    Inventors: Paul C. Hershey, Robert E. Dehnert, Jr., John J. Williams, John N. Carbone, Jeanne M. Robinson, David J. Wisniewski