Patents by Inventor Theresa Nadine Ward

Theresa Nadine Ward 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: 11861301
    Abstract: A method, apparatus, and computer system for grouping parts. Sets of unigrams are generated from text in part lists for parts in a family of parts using natural language processing, wherein a set of unigrams in the sets of unigrams represent components for a part in the parts. A document term matrix is created using the sets of unigrams. The document term matrix describes a presence of components in the parts. A number of unigrams from the document term matrix that has occurrences in the document term matrix that are greater than a common design threshold is removed. Removing the number of unigrams from the document term matrix forms a processed document term matrix. The common design threshold identifies a level of occurrence not useful in differentiating the parts from each other. The parts are clustered into groups using the processed document term matrix.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: THE BOEING COMPANY
    Inventors: Theresa Nadine Ward, David Donald Pokrajac, Abdullah Farid Adlouni
  • Patent number: 9221547
    Abstract: There is provided a method for mitigating static discharge in a fuel container. The method provides a static dissipative coating having a volume resistivity of 1.0×109 ?-m (ohm-meter) or less when measured at 40 V (volts) or less, having a surface resistivity of 1.0×1011 ?/sq (ohm per square) or less when measured at 100 V (volts) or less, having a breakdown voltage of 4000 V (volts) or less, and having a charge decay of 60 seconds or less. The method further provides applying the static dissipative coating to a surface of the fuel container to form a coated surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2015
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Alexander Chao, Eric Richard Steele, Kevin Darrell Pate, Megan J. Hurt, Michael G. Anderson, Theresa Nadine Ward, Judson Sid Clements
  • Publication number: 20110315818
    Abstract: There is provided a method for mitigating static discharge in a fuel container. The method provides a static dissipative coating having a volume resistivity of 1.0×109 ?-m (ohm-meter) or less when measured at 40 V (volts) or less, having a surface resistivity of 1.0×1011 ?/sq (ohm per square) or less when measured at 100 V (volts) or less, having a breakdown voltage of 4000 V (volts) or less, and having a charge decay of 60 seconds or less. The method further provides applying the static dissipative coating to a surface of the fuel container to form a coated surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2010
    Publication date: December 29, 2011
    Applicant: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Alexander Chao, Eric Richard Steele, Kevin Darrell Pate, Megan J. Hurt, Michael G. Anderson, Theresa Nadine Ward, Judson Sid Clements