Patents by Inventor Robert Leffler

Robert Leffler 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: 12359856
    Abstract: A method includes, accessing a first fill level timeseries generated by a first refrigeration system; detecting a first reduction in refrigerant fill level in the first refrigeration system; correlating the first reduction in refrigerant fill level with a first refrigerant; accessing a first discharge pressure timeseries; deriving a first correlation between a first leak-prediction characteristic of the first discharge pressure timeseries and the first refrigerant leak; accessing a discharge pressure timeseries generated by a second refrigeration system; in response to detecting presence of the first leak-prediction characteristic in the third discharge pressure timeseries, predicting a second refrigerant leak in the second refrigeration system; generating a notification identifying the second refrigerant leak in the second refrigeration system; and serving the electronic notification to an operator associated with the second refrigeration system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2024
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2025
    Assignee: Axiom Cloud Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Leffler, Nikhil Saralkar
  • Publication number: 20250199525
    Abstract: One variation of a method includes: aggregating language concepts, extracted from documents including refrigeration manuals for a set of refrigeration units, into a corpus of textual training data including descriptors of characteristics of refrigeration units and root causes of anomalous behaviors; training a language model on the corpus of textual training data to generate textual descriptions of root causes of anomalous behaviors; detecting an anomalous behavior occurring at a refrigeration unit; generating a textual descriptor of the anomalous behavior; generating a text string describing a root cause of the anomalous behavior based on proximity of characteristics of the refrigeration unit to characteristics of the set of refrigeration units and proximity of the textual descriptor to troubleshooting descriptions represented in the language model for a subset of analogous refrigeration units in the set of refrigeration units; generating a notification including the text string; and serving the notification
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2025
    Publication date: June 19, 2025
    Inventors: Robert Leffler, Nikhil Saralkar, Michelle Jee Eun Kim
  • Patent number: 12272949
    Abstract: Systems and methods for power generation forecasting in a microgrid are disclosed. In some embodiments, a system comprises at least one processor; and memory storing instructions executable by the at least one processor, the instructions when executed cause the system to: obtain weather information; extract, from the weather information, one or more weather events, the one or more weather events including a first event, wherein the first event causes reduction of power generation of a power generation system; determine a condition of one or more components of the power generation system based on the first weather event; and determine future power generation by the power generation system based on the determined condition of the power generation system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: CARRIER CORPORATION
    Inventor: Robert Leffler
  • Publication number: 20250044004
    Abstract: A method includes, accessing a first fill level timeseries generated by a first refrigeration system; detecting a first reduction in refrigerant fill level in the first refrigeration system; correlating the first reduction in refrigerant fill level with a first refrigerant; accessing a first discharge pressure timeseries; deriving a first correlation between a first leak-prediction characteristic of the first discharge pressure timeseries and the first refrigerant leak; accessing a discharge pressure timeseries generated by a second refrigeration system; in response to detecting presence of the first leak-prediction characteristic in the third discharge pressure timeseries, predicting a second refrigerant leak in the second refrigeration system; generating a notification identifying the second refrigerant leak in the second refrigeration system; and serving the electronic notification to an operator associated with the second refrigeration system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2024
    Publication date: February 6, 2025
    Inventors: Robert Leffler, Nikhil Saralkar
  • Publication number: 20250028315
    Abstract: One variation of a method includes: aggregating language concepts, extracted from documents including refrigeration manuals for a set of refrigeration units, into a corpus of textual training data including descriptors of characteristics of refrigeration units and root causes of anomalous behaviors; training a language model on the corpus of textual training data to generate textual descriptions of root causes of anomalous behaviors; detecting an anomalous behavior occurring at a refrigeration unit; generating a textual descriptor of the anomalous behavior; generating a text string describing a root cause of the anomalous behavior based on proximity of characteristics of the refrigeration unit to characteristics of the set of refrigeration units and proximity of the textual descriptor to troubleshooting descriptions represented in the language model for a subset of analogous refrigeration units in the set of refrigeration units; generating a notification including the text string; and serving the notification
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2024
    Publication date: January 23, 2025
    Inventors: Robert Leffler, Nikhil Saralkar, Michelle Jee Eun Kim
  • Publication number: 20240057533
    Abstract: A device configured to be adapted to a drill, the drill having a drill bit and the drill bit having a central axis, the device including an adjustable ring configured to be adapted to the drill, a front plate; a plurality of pins disposed on the front plate, each the plurality of pins including a tip; and a slide including a central axis, the front plate configured to be retractable to a first position and extendable to a second position, the adjustable ring is attached to the slide at a first portion of the slide and the front plate is attached to the slide at a second portion of the slide and a distance between the tip of each of the plurality of pins and the adjustable ring is configured to be adjustable by the slide along the central axis of the slide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2022
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Inventor: Zebulun Robert Leffler
  • Publication number: 20240057534
    Abstract: A device including a first plate including a leading edge and a second plate including a leading edge, wherein the first plate is configured to cooperate with the second plate to separate an attached unit formed of two parts, the first plate and the second plate are configured to be opposingly disposed about the attached unit with their leading edges facing one another and at least one of the first plate and the second plate is configured to move towards the other one of the first plate and second plate such that a distance between a first contact point between the first plate and the attached unit and a second contact point between the second plate and the attached unit increases to cause the attached unit to be separated into the two parts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2023
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Inventor: Zebulun Robert Leffler
  • Publication number: 20240003566
    Abstract: An active fault detection system for a heating, ventilation, and air conditioning system is disclosed. In some embodiments, the system comprises at least one processor; and memory storing instructions, when executed cause the system to: obtain system data related to operation of one or more components of the HVAC system; determine a fault probability based on the system data, the fault probability indicating a probability of a fault in the HVAC system; send a control signal to a component of the HVAC system to modify one or more control parameters of the component responsive to the fault probability being within a fault threshold range, the threshold range having an upper and lower threshold values; update the determined fault probability based on updated system data resulting from modifying the one or more control parameters; and generate a service schedule responsive to the updated fault probability being above the upper threshold value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2023
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Inventor: Robert Leffler
  • Publication number: 20230105859
    Abstract: Systems and methods for control optimization of building subsystems are disclosed. In some embodiments, a system comprises at least one processor; and memory storing instructions executable by the at least one processor, the instructions when executed cause the system to: obtain building load information, the building load information related to one or more power consuming subsystems of the building; determine a future building load based on the building load information; and adjust one or more setpoint tolerances for the one or more subsystems based on the determined future building load.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2022
    Publication date: April 6, 2023
    Inventors: Robert Leffler, Matthew Clark, Ahmad Mahmoud, Phani Pavan Kumar Mangiahgari, Alexander Healey
  • Publication number: 20230032443
    Abstract: Systems and methods for power generation forecasting in a microgrid are disclosed. In some embodiments, a system comprises at least one processor; and memory storing instructions executable by the at least one processor, the instructions when executed cause the system to: obtain weather information; extract, from the weather information, one or more weather events, the one or more weather events including a first event, wherein the first event causes reduction of power generation of a power generation system; determine a condition of one or more components of the power generation system based on the first weather event; and determine future power generation by the power generation system based on the determined condition of the power generation system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2022
    Publication date: February 2, 2023
    Inventor: Robert Leffler