Patents by Inventor Rhonda Dawn Walthall

Rhonda Dawn Walthall 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: 20220396376
    Abstract: Information regarding flight schedules, available aircraft, and maintenance information is received from one or more systems. A graph database is generated based on the received information. A graph traversal algorithm is applied to the graph database to determine an assignment of the available aircraft to the flight schedules based on reducing a risk of aircraft-on-ground at a remote location, reducing actual costs, or reducing a time cost.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2021
    Publication date: December 15, 2022
    Inventors: Ross D. Anderson, Subhashish CHAKRAVARTY, Darin M. Underwood, Matthew M. Lorch, Rhonda Dawn Walthall
  • 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: 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
  • 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