Patents by Inventor Stewart G. Goodson, II

Stewart G. Goodson, II 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).

  • Power supply having a threshold indicator to perform a shutdown operation based on voltage of a bulk capacitor
    Patent number: 11262829
    Abstract: A power supply may include a power input to connect to a power source to receive an input power for the power supply, a bulk capacitor operatively connected to the power input, and a threshold manager having a processor operatively connected to the power input and the bulk capacitor. The threshold manager to monitor the input power, calculate a threshold to perform a shutdown operation based on a shutdown requirement provided by a computing device, and in response to a power loss of the input power, monitor a bulk voltage of the bulk capacitor and send an alert to the computing device to perform the shutdown operation when the bulk voltage meets the threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
    Inventors: Stewart G. Goodson, II, Daniel Humphrey, Robin K. Schrader
  • POWER SUPPLY HAVING A THRESHOLD INDICATOR
    Publication number: 20200379535
    Abstract: A power supply may include a power input to connect to a power source to receive an input power for the power supply, a bulk capacitor operatively connected to the power input, and a threshold manager having a processor operatively connected to the power input and the bulk capacitor. The threshold manager to monitor the input power, calculate a threshold to perform a shutdown operation based on a shutdown requirement provided by a computing device, and in response to a power loss of the input power, monitor a bulk voltage of the bulk capacitor and send an alert to the computing device to perform the shutdown operation when the bulk voltage meets the threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2019
    Publication date: December 3, 2020
    Inventors: Stewart G. Goodson, II, Daniel Humphrey, Robin K. Schrader
  • SYNCHRONIZED STARTUP OF POWER SUPPLIES IN ELECTRICAL SYSTEMS
    Publication number: 20200127463
    Abstract: A method for synchronizing startup of a plurality of power supplies in an electrical system includes supplying input power to a first power supply to supply power to an auxiliary converter and an auxiliary controller. The method also includes monitoring, via the auxiliary controller, a signal shared by each of the plurality of power supplies. The method further includes incrementally increasing, via the auxiliary controller, a value of the shared signal to a next incremental value of a plurality of specified values. The method also includes enabling, via the auxiliary controller, each of the power supplies to supply power to a load when the value of the shared signal is set to a maximum value of the specified values.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2018
    Publication date: April 23, 2020
    Inventors: Daniel Humphrey, Stewart G. Goodson, II, Robin Schrader