Patents by Inventor Peter Maxwell Dower

Peter Maxwell Dower 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: 9952601
    Abstract: A method of delivery of fluid through a computer controlled fluid network, the network including; regulators to control the flow of fluid to deliver a predetermined amount thereof to at least one customer; a first control system for opening and closing the regulators, which collects data based on timed measurements of fluid levels upstream and downstream of respective regulators and the opening positions of respective regulators, using data analysis to provide models for prediction of fluid levels between regulators; a second control system that is a supervisory layer interacting with the first control system to provide adjustments to the controlling of the regulators based on constraint and future flow load; and a third control system interacting with the first and second control systems, which processes fluid delivery requests from the at least one customer to provide a flow load delivery schedule based on the hydraulic capacity of the network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2018
    Assignees: RUBICON RESEARCH PTY LTD, UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE
    Inventors: Sumith Choy, Michael William Cantoni, Peter Maxwell Dower, Michael Peter Kearney
  • Publication number: 20150057815
    Abstract: A method of delivery of fluid through a computer controlled fluid network, the network including: regulators to control the flow of fluid to deliver a predetermined amount thereof to at least one customer; a first control system for opening and closing the regulators, which collects data based on timed measurements of fluid levels upstream and downstream of respective regulators and the opening positions of respective regulators, using data analysis to provide models for prediction of fluid levels between regulators; a second control system that is a supervisory layer interacting with the first control system to provide adjustments to the controlling of the regulators based on constraint and future flow load; and a third control system interacting with the first and second control systems, which processes fluid delivery requests from the at least one customer to provide a flow load delivery schedule based on the hydraulic capacity of the network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2013
    Publication date: February 26, 2015
    Applicants: The University of Melbourne, Rubicon Research Pty Ltd
    Inventors: Sumith Choy, Michael William Cantoni, Peter Maxwell Dower, Michael Peter Kearney