Patents by Inventor Robert B. Aguilar

Robert B. Aguilar 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).

  • Failure detection system risk reduction assessment
    Patent number: 8214317
    Abstract: A process includes determining a probability of a failure mode of a system being analyzed reaching a failure limit as a function of time to failure limit, determining a probability of a mitigation of the failure mode as a function of a time to failure limit, and quantifying a risk reduction based on the probability of the failure mode reaching the failure limit and the probability of the mitigation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2012
    Assignee: Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert B. Aguilar, Zhaofeng Huang
  • FAILURE DETECTION SYSTEM RISK REDUCTION ASSESSMENT
    Publication number: 20110040719
    Abstract: A process includes determining a probability of a failure mode of a system being analyzed reaching a failure limit as a function of time to failure limit, determining a probability of a mitigation of the failure mode as a function of a time to failure limit, and quantifying a risk reduction based on the probability of the failure mode reaching the failure limit and the probability of the mitigation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2009
    Publication date: February 17, 2011
    Inventors: Robert B. Aguilar, Zhaofeng Huang