Patents by Inventor Ronald E. Wagner

Ronald E. Wagner 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).

  • Method and apparatus for determining actual and potential failure of hydraulic lifts
    Patent number: 9233819
    Abstract: An early warning system includes monitoring of the hydraulic pressure used to power the hydraulic motor used to raise a man lift during operation, and providing a prognostication algorithm coupled to the output of the sensor to predict based on data from the sensor when there will be a catastrophic failure of the lift.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2016
    Assignee: BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc.
    Inventors: Ronald E. Wagner, Robert A. Lingis
  • METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING ON-BOARD DIAGNOSTICS
    Publication number: 20150168950
    Abstract: On-board diagnostics for fleet maintenance is improved by embedding a microprocessor programmed with a prognostication algorithm on a vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2015
    Publication date: June 18, 2015
    Inventor: Ronald E. Wagner
  • METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING ACTUAL AND POTENTIAL FAILURE OF HYDRAULIC LIFTS
    Publication number: 20150112553
    Abstract: An early warning system includes monitoring of the hydraulic pressure used to power the hydraulic motor used to raise a man lift during operation, and providing a prognostication algorithm coupled to the output of the sensor to predict based on data from the sensor when there will be a catastrophic failure of the lift.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2013
    Publication date: April 23, 2015
    Inventors: Ronald E. Wagner, Robert A. Lingis
  • Method and apparatus for providing two way control and data communications to and from transportation refrigeration units (TRUs)
    Patent number: 8978467
    Abstract: An RS-485 bus is directly connected to transportation refrigeration unit sensors for transmitting information from the sensors to a remote location and for controlling sensor parameters from the remote location. The GENSET associated with the transportation refrigeration unit also utilizes the RS-485 bus, in which the bus is directly connected to the GENSET sensors for bi-directional communication therewith.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Assignee: BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc.
    Inventors: Ronald E. Wagner, Rex T. Logan
  • Method and apparatus for providing on-board diagnostics
    Patent number: 8977529
    Abstract: On-board diagnostics for fleet maintenance is improved by embedding a microprocessor programmed with a prognostication algorithm on a vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2015
    Assignee: BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc.
    Inventor: Ronald E. Wagner
  • Nearly orthogonal latin hypercubes for optimization algorithms
    Patent number: 8781993
    Abstract: Nearly orthogonal latin hypercubes are used in optimization algorithms for creating an expanded and synthetically-generated data set to improve an initial optimization algorithm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2014
    Assignee: BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc.
    Inventor: Ronald E. Wagner
  • In-building location system
    Patent number: 8659429
    Abstract: An in-building location system for detecting the location of individuals or items within a building utilizes a scanner carried by an individual or an item and RFID tags to provide fiducial points for assisting in the location process, with the tags being scanned by the scanner and in which tag proximity to a scanner provides for accurate in-building location. Accurate location of the scanner relative to multiple tags may be ascertained utilizing triangulation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2014
    Assignee: BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc.
    Inventors: Ronald E. Wagner, Bryan Siegal
  • Telenostics performance logic
    Publication number: 20140052499
    Abstract: In a method for managing a vehicle fleet using operational and maintenance data, wherein the improvement comprises the steps of also using financial, environmental, and industry data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2010
    Publication date: February 20, 2014
    Inventors: Ronald E. Wagner, Robert Charlton, Greg Thompson, Robert Ufford
  • Method and apparatus for providing on-board diagnostics
    Publication number: 20140052418
    Abstract: On-board diagnostics for fleet maintenance is improved by embedding a microprocessor programmed with a prognostication algorithm on a vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2010
    Publication date: February 20, 2014
    Inventor: Ronald E. Wagner
  • Portable performance support device and method for use
    Publication number: 20140052676
    Abstract: A user is provided with a portable performance support device that allows the user to be connected with all relevant information required for a task; determines the relevance and priority of a task; assesses an event or condition and provides knowledge to the user by collecting information from actions taken, learning from said actions and making knowledge gained therefrom available to the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2010
    Publication date: February 20, 2014
    Inventors: Ronald E. Wagner, Robert Charlton, Greg Thompson, Robert Ufford
  • Method of preventing spoilage
    Publication number: 20140049392
    Abstract: A method is provided for preventing spoilage of perishable goods by utilizing algorithms that predict the probability of spoilage based on sensor inputs, in which containers are provided with one or more spoilage sensors that are output to a prognostic or detection algorithm for providing the probability that spoilage has occurred or the probability that spoilage will occur at some specific time in the future.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2010
    Publication date: February 20, 2014
    Inventor: Ronald E. Wagner
  • Telenostics point of performance driver performance index
    Publication number: 20140052672
    Abstract: Fleet management is apprised of the effects of driver's performance through the use of a driver performance index that is a relative calculation of how well a driver is operating equipment in which the driver performance index is tailorable to each organization so that the relative value of each element of the calculation can be weighted, with the driver performance index including metrics that indicate the way the vehicle is being operated whether before, during or after the operating period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2010
    Publication date: February 20, 2014
    Inventors: Ronald E. Wagner, Robert Charlton, David Sada
  • Nearly orthogonal latin hypercubes for optimization algorithms
    Publication number: 20140052677
    Abstract: Nearly orthogonal latin hypercubes are used in optimization algorithms for creating an expanded and synthetically-generated data set to improve an initial optimization algorithm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2010
    Publication date: February 20, 2014
    Inventor: Ronald E. Wagner
  • Method and apparatus for determining actual and potential failure of hydraulic lifts
    Publication number: 20140052348
    Abstract: An early warning system includes monitoring of the hydraulic pressure used to power the hydraulic motor used to raise a man lift during operation, and providing a prognostication algorithm coupled to the output of the sensor to predict based on data from the sensor when there will be a catastrophic failure of the lift.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2010
    Publication date: February 20, 2014
    Inventors: Ronald E. Wagner, Rob Lingis
  • Experimental engineering optimization algorithm at point of performance
    Publication number: 20140052959
    Abstract: A method is provided for reducing the data set used in creating an optimization algorithm, thus to permit the use of microprocessors, that in turn permits embedding the optimization algorithm at the point of performance, in which a subset of data points in a performance window is used to derive a vector that is utilized to create an initial optimization algorithm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2010
    Publication date: February 20, 2014
    Inventor: Ronald E. Wagner
  • Method and apparatus for providing two way control and data communications to and from transportation refrigeration units (TRUs)
    Publication number: 20140052888
    Abstract: An RS-485 bus is directly connected to transportation refrigeration unit sensors for transmitting information from the sensors to a remote location and for controlling sensor parameters from the remote location. The GENSET associated with the transportation refrigeration unit also utilizes the RS-485 bus, in which the bus is directly connected to the GENSET sensors for bi-directional communication therewith.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2010
    Publication date: February 20, 2014
    Inventors: Ronald E. Wagner, Rex T. Logan
  • Telenostics point of performance pre-operations condition capture system
    Publication number: 20140049390
    Abstract: For fleet maintenance a point of performance pre-operations condition capture system includes the use of RFID tags and associated sensors positioned at various vehicle locations to sense operating conditions at the vehicle, with the pre-operations condition provided by a scanner that scans the RFID tags for ascertaining the identity of a sensor and the sensed operational state, such that pre-operations condition can be ascertained and verified due to the RFID tag scanning.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2010
    Publication date: February 20, 2014
    Inventors: Ronald E. Wagner, Robert Charlton, Robert Ufford
  • Reduced bandwidth transmission for multiple sensors utilized to monitor a system
    Publication number: 20140050081
    Abstract: In a system for monitoring multiple sensors, a technique is utilized to reduce the bandwidth necessary to transmit sensor data to a processing location by embedding a diagnostic and/or prognostic algorithm at the sensor location and providing that the algorithm outputs only values that are greater than predetermined exceedances for each of the sensors involved, and by monitoring only performance parameters that are critical to the monitored system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2010
    Publication date: February 20, 2014
    Inventor: Ronald E. Wagner
  • In service support center and method of operation
    Publication number: 20140052501
    Abstract: In a method for in service support for a vehicle fleet wherein the improvement comprises providing Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM), Conditioned Based Maintenance (CBM), Fleet Management (FM), Vehicle/Component Asset Tracking, Stores/Consumable Inventory, and maintenance management.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2010
    Publication date: February 20, 2014
    Inventors: Richard G. Dickson, Ronald E. Wagner, Richard A. Woehl
  • Telenostics for medical uses
    Publication number: 20140046640
    Abstract: Telenostics style prognostication algorithms are used in medical prognosis to predict the mean time to an unacceptable result, such as death, or the mean time to a cure or partial cure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2010
    Publication date: February 13, 2014
    Inventor: Ronald E. Wagner