Patents by Inventor Teems E. Lovett

Teems E. Lovett 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: 11586938
    Abstract: A building management system for a building system includes a building system interface configured to receive building system data; a knowledge base configured to receive the building system data, the knowledge base providing a model of the building system, the model including semantic descriptions of the building system data, the semantic descriptions of the building system data being arranged in an ontology; and a user interface configured to access the knowledge base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: CARRIER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Fabrizio Smith, Daniele Alessandrelli, Christos Sofronis, Alberto Ferrari, Jason Higley, Francesco Leonardi, Teems E. Lovett
  • Patent number: 11286133
    Abstract: An elevator system includes a component adapted to perform a function, a sensor, and a control configuration. The sensor is configured to detect an operating parameter associated with the function. The control configuration is configured to receive a parameter signal from the sensor, and extract a predesignated feature from data associated with the parameter signal. The predesignated feature is then aggregated by the control configuration and machine learning is applied to determine a degradation level of the function associated with the predesignated feature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: OTIS ELEVATOR COMPANY
    Inventors: Nikola Trcka, Teems E. Lovett, Sandeep Sudi, Paul R. Braunwart, Sudarshan N. Koushik, Peter Liaskas
  • Patent number: 11148906
    Abstract: An elevator vandalism monitoring system is configured to determine if an act of vandalism upon a component of an elevator system has occurred. The vandalism monitoring system includes a sensor, a processor, an electronic storage medium, a model, and a comparison module. The sensor is configured to monitor a detectable parameter associated with the component, and output a detectable parameter signal. The processor is configured to receive the detectable parameter signal. The model is stored in the electronic storage medium, and is associated with an expected parameter. The comparison module is executed by the processor, and is configured to generally compare the model to the detectable parameter signal for determining if a parameter anomaly exists.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: OTIS ELEVATOR COMPANY
    Inventor: Teems E. Lovett
  • Patent number: 11014780
    Abstract: According to an aspect, an elevator sensor calibration system includes one or more sensors operable to monitor an elevator system, an elevator sensor calibration device, and a computing system. The computing system includes a memory and a processor that collects a plurality of baseline sensor data from the one or more sensors during movement of an elevator component, collects a plurality of disturbance data from the one or more sensors while the elevator component is displaced responsive to contact with the elevator sensor calibration device during movement of the elevator component, and performs analytics model calibration to calibrate a trained model based on one or more response changes between the baseline sensor data and the disturbance data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: OTIS ELEVATOR COMPANY
    Inventors: Sudarshan N. Koushik, Paul R. Braunwart, Charles C. Coffin, Teems E. Lovett
  • Patent number: 10829344
    Abstract: According to an aspect, a method of elevator sensor system calibration includes collecting, by a computing system, a plurality of data from one or more sensors of an elevator sensor system while a calibration device applies a known excitation. The computing system compares an actual response to an expected response to the known excitation using a trained model. The computing system performs analytics model calibration to calibrate the trained model based on one or more response changes between the actual response and the expected response.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: OTIS ELEVATOR COMPANY
    Inventors: Sudarshan N. Koushik, Paul R. Braunwart, Soumalya Sarkar, Teems E. Lovett, George S. Ekladious
  • Patent number: 10636272
    Abstract: A method of examining an electrical safety chain of an elevator system including: emitting an electric pulse from a time-domain reflectometer into an electrical safety chain of an elevator system; detecting a reflected electric pulse reflected within the electrical safety chain using the time-domain reflectometer; comparing the reflected electric pulse to a baseline reflected electric pulse; and determining a degradation level in response to the reflected electric pulse and the baseline reflected electric pulse.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: OTIS ELEVATOR COMPANY
    Inventors: Joseph Zacchio, Teems E. Lovett, Paul R. Braunwart
  • Publication number: 20200122967
    Abstract: A monitoring system includes one or more detection devices, a communication device, and an analytics system. The one or more detection devices generate, at a conveyance system, one or more data streams describing the ride of the conveyance system, where the data streams include at least one of vibration data and audio data. The communication device transmits sensor data based on the one or more data streams. The analytics system receives the sensor data from the communication device and, based on the sensor data, determines a ride quality of the conveyance system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2018
    Publication date: April 23, 2020
    Inventors: Soumalya Sarkar, Teems E. Lovett, Paul R. Braunwart, Sudarshan N. Koushik, Nikola Trcka, George Scott Copeland, George S. Ekladious, Peter Liaskas, Sandeep Sudi
  • Publication number: 20200098237
    Abstract: A method of examining an electrical safety chain of an elevator system including: emitting an electric pulse from a time-domain reflectometer into an electrical safety chain of an elevator system; detecting a reflected electric pulse reflected within the electrical safety chain using the time-domain reflectometer; comparing the reflected electric pulse to a baseline reflected electric pulse; and determining a degradation level in response to the reflected electric pulse and the baseline reflected electric pulse.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2018
    Publication date: March 26, 2020
    Inventors: Joseph Zacchio, Teems E. Lovett, Paul R. Braunwart
  • Publication number: 20200065691
    Abstract: Embodiments include techniques for developing a model framework for remote unit monitoring condition-based maintenance. The techniques include collecting data associated with unplanned service requests, and generating one or more models from the collected data. The techniques also include predicting unplanned service requests based at least in part on the one or more models, and transmitting an output of the prediction of the unplanned service request.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2019
    Publication date: February 27, 2020
    Inventors: Teems E. Lovett, Murat Yasar, Nikola Trcka, Peter Liaskas, Kin Gwn Lore
  • Publication number: 20200002125
    Abstract: Embodiments include a system and method for scheduling maintenance based on remote monitoring data and service data analytics. The embodiments include a controller configured monitor performance of one or more units, a remote system configured to store service data associated with the one or more units, and a processor operably coupled to the controller and the remote system. The processor is configured to receive monitoring data from the controller for the one or more units, and receive service data for the one or more units. The remote system is also configured to generate a health score based at least in part on the monitoring data and the service data. The processor is further configured to predict a failure based at least in part on the health score, and execute an action based at least in part on the generated health score.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2018
    Publication date: January 2, 2020
    Inventors: Peter Liaskas, Nikola Trcka, Teems E. Lovett, Frank Higgins, Sally Day Mahoney
  • Publication number: 20190353494
    Abstract: A system for providing route recommendations for field service technicians is provided. The system includes a processor for performing operations that include identifying a current geographic location of a service technician and receiving a list of tasks for the service technician. A plurality of route options are generated for the service technician based at least in part on the list of tasks and the current geographic location of the service technician. Each of the plurality of route options includes a geographic location of at least one of the tasks in the list of tasks. The route options are output.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2018
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Inventors: Yiqing Lin, Teems E. Lovett, Mark Antunes
  • Patent number: 10319160
    Abstract: According to one or more embodiments, a system and method for authorizing a user securing an elevator call in a building is provided. For example, the method includes receiving, at a mobile device, a secure authorization token that includes an expiration time, connecting the mobile device to a backend system using the secure authorization token from the mobile device, verifying, using the backend system, an authenticity of the secure authorization token from the mobile device based on at least the expiration time, generating, at the backend system, a secure access token and a random number in response to the authenticity of the secure authorization token being verified, and receiving, at the mobile device, the secure access token and the random number for use making elevator call requests.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: OTIS ELEVATOR COMPANY
    Inventors: Devu Manikantan Shila, Paul A. Simcik, Teems E. Lovett
  • Patent number: 10274915
    Abstract: A method of managing structure resources of a cyber-physical structure includes identifying the structure resources of the cyber-physical structure, the structure resources including dynamic resources configured to provide dynamic structure data over time based on monitoring the cyber-physical structure over time; identifying, by a structure management computer system, applicable structure-management templates which include one or more operation algorithms for managing the structure resources and one or more required-resource descriptions defining structure resources required by the one or more operation algorithms, the applicable structure management templates identified based on matching identified structure resources to the required-resource descriptions of the structure-management templates; and applying, by the structure management computer system, one or more of the applicable structure-management templates as structure management systems to manage operation of the cyber-physical structure by implementi
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: CARRIER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Teems E. Lovett, Francesco Leonardi
  • Publication number: 20190010022
    Abstract: An elevator system includes a component adapted to perform a function, a sensor, and a control configuration. The sensor is configured to detect an operating parameter associated with the function. The control configuration is configured to receive a parameter signal from the sensor, and extract a predesignated feature from data associated with the parameter signal. The predesignated feature is then aggregated by the control configuration and machine learning is applied to determine a degradation level of the function associated with the predesignated feature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2018
    Publication date: January 10, 2019
    Inventors: Nikola Trcka, Teems E. Lovett, Sandeep Sudi, Paul R. Braunwart, Sudarshan N. Koushik, Peter Liaskas
  • Publication number: 20190010021
    Abstract: According to an aspect, a method of elevator sensor system calibration includes collecting, by a computing system, a plurality of baseline sensor data from one or more sensors of an elevator sensor system as a field-site baseline response. The computing system compares the field-site baseline response to an experiment-site baseline response. The computing system performs analytics model calibration to produce a calibrated trained model for fault diagnostics and/or prognostics based on one or more response changes between the field-site baseline response and the experiment-site baseline response.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2017
    Publication date: January 10, 2019
    Inventors: Soumalya Sarkar, Teems E. Lovett, George S. Ekladious
  • Publication number: 20190010020
    Abstract: According to an aspect, a method of elevator sensor system calibration includes collecting, by a computing system, a plurality of data from one or more sensors of an elevator sensor system while a calibration device applies a known excitation. The computing system compares an actual response to an expected response to the known excitation using a trained model. The computing system performs analytics model calibration to calibrate the trained model based on one or more response changes between the actual response and the expected response.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2017
    Publication date: January 10, 2019
    Inventors: Sudarshan N. Koushik, Paul R. Braunwart, Soumalya Sarkar, Teems E. Lovett, George S. Ekladious
  • Publication number: 20190010018
    Abstract: An elevator vandalism monitoring system is configured to determine if an act of vandalism upon a component of an elevator system has occurred. The vandalism monitoring system includes a sensor, a processor, an electronic storage medium, a model, and a comparison module. The sensor is configured to monitor a detectable parameter associated with the component, and output a detectable parameter signal. The processor is configured to receive the detectable parameter signal. The model is stored in the electronic storage medium, and is associated with an expected parameter. The comparison module is executed by the processor, and is configured to generally compare the model to the detectable parameter signal for determining if a parameter anomaly exists.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2018
    Publication date: January 10, 2019
    Inventor: Teems E. Lovett
  • Publication number: 20190010019
    Abstract: According to an aspect, an elevator sensor calibration system includes one or more sensors operable to monitor an elevator system, an elevator sensor calibration device, and a computing system. The computing system includes a memory and a processor that collects a plurality of baseline sensor data from the one or more sensors during movement of an elevator component, collects a plurality of disturbance data from the one or more sensors while the elevator component is displaced responsive to contact with the elevator sensor calibration device during movement of the elevator component, and performs analytics model calibration to calibrate a trained model based on one or more response changes between the baseline sensor data and the disturbance data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2017
    Publication date: January 10, 2019
    Inventors: Sudarshan N. Koushik, Paul R. Braunwart, Charles C. Coffin, Teems E. Lovett
  • Publication number: 20180316652
    Abstract: A mobile-based equipment service system includes a remote server, a mobile device, and at least one equipment controller. The mobile device includes a user interface, and is configured to send a user authentication message, initiated by a user via the user interface, to the remote server. The remote server is configured to verify the user via the user authentication message and once verified, send an encrypted blob to the mobile device in response to the user authentication message. At least one equipment controller is configured to receive and decrypt the encrypted blob from the mobile device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2017
    Publication date: November 1, 2018
    Inventors: Devu Manikantan Shila, Arthur T. Grondine, Michael Garfinkel, Teems E. Lovett
  • Patent number: 10116635
    Abstract: A mobile-based equipment service system includes a remote server, a mobile device, and at least one equipment controller. The mobile device includes a user interface, and is configured to send a user authentication message, initiated by a user via the user interface, to the remote server. The remote server is configured to verify the user via the user authentication message and once verified, send an encrypted blob to the mobile device in response to the user authentication message. At least one equipment controller is configured to receive and decrypt the encrypted blob from the mobile device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignee: OTIS ELEVATOR COMPANY
    Inventors: Devu Manikantan Shila, Arthur T. Grondine, Michael Garfinkel, Teems E. Lovett