Patents by Inventor Stuart Gilmour

Stuart Gilmour 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).

  • Method for modeling a repair in an electric grid
    Patent number: 9129141
    Abstract: This disclosure describes methods for use with energy management systems that electric utilities use to manage power distribution networks. The methods can account for changes in phase value that dynamic cross-phasing causes in the power distribution network. In one embodiment, the methods facilitate computer-based modeling of the power distribution network to include such changes in phase value into a connectivity model, which provides a schematic representation of the power distribution network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2015
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Stuart Gilmour, Steven Sparling
  • Methods and systems for branch encoding in an electric network
    Patent number: 8779624
    Abstract: Methods and systems for branch encoding an electric network to identify a direction of power flow in the electric network are provided. Sequential numbers are assigned to a first power source, each one of a plurality of power branches, and each one of a plurality of nodes. A rationalized value indicative of a direction of current flow through a branch is assigned to each branch of the plurality of branches. The rationalized value of each branch is determined as the difference between the numbers assigned to that branch's first connecting node and its second connecting node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2014
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Steven Sparling, Stuart Gilmour
  • METHOD FOR MODELING A REPAIR IN AN ELECTRIC GRID
    Publication number: 20130179143
    Abstract: This disclosure describes methods for use with energy management systems that electric utilities use to manage power distribution networks. The methods can account for changes in phase value that dynamic cross-phasing causes in the power distribution network. In one embodiment, the methods facilitate computer-based modeling of the power distribution network to include such changes in phase value into a connectivity model, which provides a schematic representation of the power distribution network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2012
    Publication date: July 11, 2013
    Applicant: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Stuart Gilmour, Steven Sparling
  • METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR BRANCH ENCODING IN AN ELECTRIC NETWORK
    Publication number: 20130082524
    Abstract: Methods and systems for branch encoding an electric network to identify a direction of power flow in the electric network are provided. Sequential numbers are assigned to a first power source, each one of a plurality of power branches, and each one of a plurality of nodes. A rationalized value indicative of a direction of current flow through a branch is assigned to each branch of the plurality of branches. The rationalized value of each branch is determined as the difference between the numbers assigned to that branch's first connecting node and its second connecting node.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2011
    Publication date: April 4, 2013
    Inventors: Steven Sparling, Stuart Gilmour