Patents by Inventor Paul Swanton

Paul Swanton 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: 9207285
    Abstract: Baseline values for battery testing are automatically determined for individual batteries, battery cells, or networks of batteries. Impedance information is obtained from individual batteries and adjusted for operating conditions at a site of use (e.g., temperature, age, connection topology and user-entered information). Population-referenced baselines are automatically calculated from the group of individual-referenced baselines. All baselines can be continually updated and improved. The state of charge and state of health characteristics of batteries in the network can be automatically determined by comparison of measured impedance, and other values, to the baselines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2015
    Assignee: Global Energy Innovations, Inc.
    Inventors: Paul Swanton, John McHardy
  • Patent number: 8738310
    Abstract: Baseline values for battery testing are automatically determined for individual batteries, battery cells, or networks of batteries. Impedance information is obtained from individual batteries and adjusted for operating conditions at a site of use (e.g., temperature, age, connection topology and user-entered information). Population-referenced baselines are automatically calculated from the group of individual-referenced baselines. All baselines can be continually updated and improved. SOC and SOH characteristics of batteries in the network can be automatically determined by comparison of measured impedance, and other, values to said baselines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2014
    Inventor: Paul Swanton
  • Publication number: 20120150464
    Abstract: Baseline values for battery testing are automatically determined for individual batteries, battery cells, or networks of batteries. Impedance information is obtained from individual batteries and adjusted for operating conditions at a site of use (e.g., temperature, age, connection topology and user-entered information). Population-referenced baselines are automatically calculated from the group of individual-referenced baselines. All baselines can be continually updated and improved. SOC and SOH characteristics of batteries in the network can be automatically determined by comparison of measured impedance, and other, values to said baselines.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2010
    Publication date: June 14, 2012
    Inventor: Paul Swanton
  • Publication number: 20060190204
    Abstract: The invention provides a method for capturing and analyzing the total electrical response to a time-varying electrical stimulation of a system or device containing electrochemically active biological or non-biological substances. The response can be either a time-varying voltage (in the case of current-mode stimulation), or a time-varying current (in the case of voltage-mode stimulation). Using synchronous data acquisition technology and advanced data analysis, the method yields not only the idealized 2-parameter information (e.g., phase and amplitude) provided by conventional methods, but also parameters extracted from non-ideal features of the response waveform that are suppressed by impedance methods. By extracting the full range of response characteristics, the method yields a multi-parameter representation of the system or device under test.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2006
    Publication date: August 24, 2006
    Inventors: John McHardy, Kurt Salloux, Paul Swanton