Patents by Inventor Stan A. Kolasa

Stan A. Kolasa 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).

  • Methods and systems for providing unanticipated demand predictions for maintenance
    Patent number: 7945427
    Abstract: A method for predicting a probability of failure for a component of a platform at a specified time is described. The method includes collecting historical maintenance data relating to the component, selecting, utilizing the collected historical maintenance data, a lifetime distribution model that best fits the historical maintenance data, estimating upcoming component failures using the selected lifetime distribution model, and applying maintenance schedule dates for the platform to the upcoming component failures to determine a likelihood of failure of the component on one of the scheduled maintenance dates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2011
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Nicholas A. Guenther, April Y. Nash, Stan A. Kolasa
  • METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PROVIDING UNANTICIPATED DEMAND PREDICTIONS FOR MAINTENANCE
    Publication number: 20090265118
    Abstract: A method for predicting a probability of failure for a component of a platform at a specified time is described. The method includes collecting historical maintenance data relating to the component, selecting, utilizing the collected historical maintenance data, a lifetime distribution model that best fits the historical maintenance data, estimating upcoming component failures using the selected lifetime distribution model, and applying maintenance schedule dates for the platform to the upcoming component failures to determine a likelihood of failure of the component on one of the scheduled maintenance dates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2008
    Publication date: October 22, 2009
    Inventors: Nicholas A. Guenther, April Y. Nash, Stan A. Kolasa