Patents by Inventor Richard Levin

Richard Levin 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: 11334854
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture to generate an asset workscope are disclosed. An example system includes an asset health calculator to identify an asset on which to perform maintenance based on generating a first asset health quantifier corresponding to a first asset health status, a task generator to determine a first workscope including first asset maintenance tasks, and a task optimizer to determine a second workscope including second asset maintenance tasks based on the first asset health quantifier and/or first workscope. The example system includes a workscope effect calculator to generate a second asset health quantifier corresponding to a second asset health status when the second workscope is completed on the asset, and to update the asset health calculator, task generator, and/or task optimizer to improve determination of first and/or second workscopes to improve the second asset health quantifier relative to the first asset health quantifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Gregory Jon Chiaramonte, Donald Horn, Vijay John, Steven Richard Levin, Victor Manuel Perez Zarate, Charles Larry Abernathy
  • Patent number: 11067592
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed to perform prognostic health monitoring of a turbine engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: William Edwin Hurst, Mei Gao, Vivek Gandhi, Donald Horn, Gregory Jon Chiaramonte, Katherine Tharp Nowicki, Steven Richard Levin, Michael William Bailey, Ronald Plybon, Mustafa Tekin Dokucu, Aditya Kumar
  • Patent number: 10809156
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to an automated system and method of analyzing performance of engines in a test cell. The method includes electronically accessing engine operational data in a stored database of the test cell. Another step includes electronically retrieving operational data corresponding to the new test if at least one new test is detected in the stored database for an engine. Further, the method includes inputting the operational data corresponding to the new test into a performance model specific to an engine type for the engine. The method also includes electronically analyzing an output of the performance model. An additional step includes electronically generating at least one summary report of engine health of the engine based on the analyzed output. Thus, the method also includes providing the summary report as electronic output to a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Susan Michelle DeMarco, Charles Larry Abernathy, Steven Richard Levin, Bernard Dumm, Brett Stephen Kramer
  • Publication number: 20190147412
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture to generate an asset workscope are disclosed. An example system includes an asset health calculator to identify an asset on which to perform maintenance based on generating a first asset health quantifier corresponding to a first asset health status, a task generator to determine a first workscope including first asset maintenance tasks, and a task optimizer to determine a second workscope including second asset maintenance tasks based on the first asset health quantifier and/or first workscope. The example system includes a workscope effect calculator to generate a second asset health quantifier corresponding to a second asset health status when the second workscope is completed on the asset, and to update the asset health calculator, task generator, and/or task optimizer to improve determination of first and/or second workscopes to improve the second asset health quantifier relative to the first asset health quantifier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2017
    Publication date: May 16, 2019
    Inventors: Gregory Jon Chiaramonte, Donald Horn, Vijay John, Steven Richard Levin, Victor Manuel Perez Zarate, Charles Larry Abernathy
  • Publication number: 20190146446
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed to generate an asset health quantifier of a turbine engine. An example apparatus includes a health quantifier generator to execute a computer-generated model to simulate an operating condition of a turbine engine using asset monitoring information and generate an asset health quantifier of the turbine engine based on the simulation, and compare the asset health quantifier to a threshold, and a removal scheduler to identify the turbine engine for removal from service based on the comparison to improve an operation of the turbine engine by performing a workscope on the removed turbine engine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2017
    Publication date: May 16, 2019
    Inventors: Charles Larry Abernathy, Gregory Jon Chiaramonte, Steven Richard Levin, Donald Horn, Nitish Umang, Asko Soimakallio, Victor Manuel Perez Zarate
  • Publication number: 20190146000
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed to perform prognostic health monitoring of a turbine engine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2017
    Publication date: May 16, 2019
    Inventors: William Edwin Hurst, Mei Gao, Vivek Gandhi, Donald Horn, Gregory Jon Chiaramonte, Katherine Tharp Nowicki, Steven Richard Levin, Michael William Bailey, Ronald Plybon, Mustafa Tekin Dokucu, Aditya Kumar
  • Publication number: 20170234773
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to an automated system and method of analyzing performance of engines in a test cell. The method includes electronically accessing engine operational data in a stored database of the test cell. Another step includes electronically retrieving operational data corresponding to the new test if at least one new test is detected in the stored database for an engine. Further, the method includes inputting the operational data corresponding to the new test into a performance model specific to an engine type for the engine. The method also includes electronically analyzing an output of the performance model. An additional step includes electronically generating at least one summary report of engine health of the engine based on the analyzed output. Thus, the method also includes providing the summary report as electronic output to a user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2016
    Publication date: August 17, 2017
    Inventors: Susan Michelle DeMarco, Charles Larry Abernathy, Steven Richard Levin, Bernard Dumm, Brett Stephen Kramer
  • Patent number: 7441219
    Abstract: The present invention enables a user to create, modify, simulate and save an electrical circuit using an Internet browser over an Internet connection. The user can change the connectivity of the circuit as well as add and/or remove components in a free form manner. The schematic is displayed within a web page on the user's machine with which the user may interact. Block symbols may be used to represent at least a portion of the schematic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2008
    Assignee: National Semiconductor Corporation
    Inventors: Jeffrey Robert Perry, Martin Garrison, Khang Nguyen, Richard Levin, Wanda Carol Garrett, Phillip Gibson, Benjamin H. Lee
  • Patent number: 6931369
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for thermally simulating a circuit over a network is provided. Techniques are provided for designing a circuit that satisfies user-specified functional requirements received over a network. Based on the specified requirements, components and a topology for constructing the circuit are automatically determined. The components determined during this operation have operational values such that, when the components are arranged according to the topology to form the circuit, the circuit satisfies the user-specified functional requirements. One or more web pages that identify the components are then delivered to the browser over the network. The component and topology information may be used to generate a schematic diagram that is delivered in a web page to the user over the network. The user may thermally simulate the designed circuit. Many characteristics of the board may be adjusted to provide an accurate thermal simulation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2005
    Assignee: National Semiconductor Corporation
    Inventors: Jeffrey Robert Perry, Martin Garrison, Rex L. Allison, III, Richard Levin, Phil Gibson, Vandana A. Sojrani, Khang Nguyen, Wanda Carol Garrett, John D. Perzow
  • Publication number: 20040268283
    Abstract: The present invention enables a user to create, modify, simulate and save an electrical circuit using an Internet browser over an Internet connection. The user can change the connectivity of the circuit as well as add and/or remove components in a free form manner. The schematic is displayed within a web page on the user's machine with which the user may interact. Block symbols may be used to represent at least a portion of the schematic.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2003
    Publication date: December 30, 2004
    Applicant: NATIONAL SEMICONDUCTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jeffrey Robert Perry, Martin Garrison, Khang Nguyen, Richard Levin, Wanda Carol Garrett, Phillip Gibson, Benjamin H. Lee
  • Patent number: 6678877
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for PCB layout of a circuit simulated over a network is provided. Techniques are provided for designing a circuit that satisfies user-specified functional requirements received over a network. Based on the specified requirements, components and a topology for constructing the circuit are automatically determined. The components determined during this operation have operational values such that, when the components are arranged according to the topology to form the circuit, the circuit satisfies the user-specified functional requirements. The components are placed on a PC board having landing areas designed to accommodate all of the anticipated component sizes for the type of circuit being designed. The PC board may be cropped to the desired size. The PCB may be cropped automatically or manually by the user. The component and topology information may be used to generate a schematic diagram that is delivered in a web page to the user over the network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2004
    Assignee: National Semiconductor Corporation
    Inventors: Jeffrey Robert Perry, Martin Garrison, Rex L. Allison, III, Richard Levin, Phil Gibson, Vandana A. Sojrani, Khang Nguyen, Wanda Carol Garrett