Patents by Inventor S. Ted Wood

S. Ted Wood 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: 20080010230
    Abstract: There is disclosed a hybrid assessment tool. In an embodiment, the tool includes code to determine initial cut sets from a model; code to modify the initial cut sets; code to create a logic model representative of a subset of failure combinations created from the initial cut sets; code to convert the logic model representative into a binary decision diagram (BDD); and code to quantify the risk for a scenario. There is disclosed a method of quantifying risk of a scenario. In one embodiment, the method includes determining initial cut sets from a model; modifying the initial cut sets; creating a logic model representative of a subset of failure combinations created from the initial cut sets; converting the logic model into a BDD; and quantifying the risk for the scenario using the BDD. Other embodiments are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2006
    Publication date: January 10, 2008
    Inventors: Curtis L. Smith, S. Ted Wood, Steven R. Prescott