Patents by Inventor Stephanie Locks

Stephanie Locks 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).

  • House of quality for federated manufacturing apps
    Patent number: 10990360
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method of identifying federations of manufacturing apps using House of Quality (HoQ) analysis includes receiving user request information comprising a plurality of desired functions and an importance value for each of the plurality of desired functions and generating a correlation matrix between the plurality of apps, wherein each element of the correlation matrix indicates a degree of correlation between a pair of apps. A relationship matrix is generated which comprises numerical values indicating relationships between a plurality of apps and the plurality of desired functions, wherein each column of relationship matrix is associated with an app and each row is associated with a desired function. Next, a weighted matrix is created by multiplying each row in the relationship matrix by the importance value corresponding to the desired function associated with the row.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignees: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Georgia Tech Research Corporation
    Inventors: Thomas Gruenewald, Lingyun Wang, Justinian Rosca, Thomas Kurfess, Stephanie Locks, Aoyu Chen, Dongmin Han, Nuodi Huang, Roby Lynn
  • HOUSE OF QUALITY FOR FEDERATED MANUFACTURING APPS
    Publication number: 20190243618
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method of identifying federations of manufacturing apps using House of Quality (HoQ) analysis includes receiving user request information comprising a plurality of desired functions and an importance value for each of the plurality of desired functions and generating a correlation matrix between the plurality of apps, wherein each element of the correlation matrix indicates a degree of correlation between a pair of apps. A relationship matrix is generated which comprises numerical values indicating relationships between a plurality of apps and the plurality of desired functions, wherein each column of relationship matrix is associated with an app and each row is associated with a desired function. Next, a weighted matrix is created by multiplying each row in the relationship matrix by the importance value corresponding to the desired function associated with the row.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2017
    Publication date: August 8, 2019
    Inventors: Thomas Gruenewald, Lingyun Wang, Justinian Rosca, Thomas Kurfess, Stephanie Locks, Aoyu Chen, Dongmin Han, Nuodi Huang, Roby Lynn