Patents by Inventor Steven Renfro

Steven Renfro 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: 10018972
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide an apparatus including: a controller communicatively coupled to a power generation system and configured to shift the power generation system between a first operating mode and a second operating mode, the second operating mode being different from the first operating mode; and a economic optimization engine in communication with the controller, wherein the economic optimization engine calculates: an economic benefit for shifting the power generation system from the first operating mode to the second operating mode based on at least one of a power generation demand, a power generation cost, and an operating condition of the power generation system; and a billing rate per unit of time of operation in the second operating mode based on at least one of the economic benefit, an operating difference between the first operating mode and the second operating mode, and a predetermined cost differential.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2018
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Rahul Jaikaran Chillar, Ernest George Cusick, Julio Enrique Mestroni, Charles Steven Renfro
  • Publication number: 20150355606
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide an apparatus including: a controller communicatively coupled to a power generation system and configured to shift the power generation system between a first operating mode and a second operating mode, the second operating mode being different from the first operating mode; and a economic optimization engine in communication with the controller, wherein the economic optimization engine calculates: an economic benefit for shifting the power generation system from the first operating mode to the second operating mode based on at least one of a power generation demand, a power generation cost, and an operating condition of the power generation system; and a billing rate per unit of time of operation in the second operating mode based on at least one of the economic benefit, an operating difference between the first operating mode and the second operating mode, and a predetermined cost differential.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2014
    Publication date: December 10, 2015
    Inventors: Rahul Jaikaran Chillar, Ernest George Cusick, Julio Enrique Mestroni, Charles Steven Renfro
  • Patent number: 6963989
    Abstract: A method and apparatus are disclosed for adjusting the individual data hold time of data output buffers. Clock signals for the output buffers are respectively and individually adjusted for each of the output buffers to ensure a desired timing relationship among all of the data output by the buffers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2005
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: James S. Cullum, Steven Renfro
  • Patent number: 5812470
    Abstract: An apparatus, system and method for identifying an access mode of a semiconductor memory in a data processing system, characterized by significant reduction of the possibility of erroneous identification of the access mode. A semiconductor memory has an access circuit bank with plurality of selectable circuits only one of which is activated, each selectable circuit respectively associated with a selectable semiconductor memory access mode, the access mode selection typically being accomplished by selectively blowing fuses associated with the corresponding selectable circuits. A semiconductor memory access mode is correctly identified by associating, in response to a test signal for determining the fuse status, the respective activated selectable circuit with its corresponding access mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 1996
    Date of Patent: September 22, 1998
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Roland Ochoa, Kacey Cutler, Craig Schneider, Gary Gilliam, Steven Renfro