Patents by Inventor Tim Loftus

Tim Loftus 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: 11402541
    Abstract: A system and method for forecasting perceived transitions to the four annual seasons in geographic areas is disclosed. The perceived transitions are identified by comparing forecasted daily temperatures in each geographic area to thresholds generated based on normal daily temperatures in those geographic areas. The forecasted daily temperatures may be calculated using both forecasted temperatures and forecasted perceived ambient temperatures (calculated using both temperature and humidity, cloud cover, sun intensity, and/or wind speed).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: AccuWeather, Inc.
    Inventors: Rosemary Radich, Tim Loftus, Jennifer Akers, Michael R. Root
  • Patent number: 11397281
    Abstract: A system and method for forecasting perceived transitions to the four annual seasons in geographic areas is disclosed. The perceived transitions are identified by comparing forecasted daily temperatures in each geographic area to thresholds generated based on normal daily temperatures in those geographic areas. The forecasted daily temperatures may be calculated using both forecasted temperatures and forecasted perceived ambient temperatures (calculated using both temperature and humidity, cloud cover, sun intensity, and/or wind speed).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: AccuWeather, Inc.
    Inventors: Rosemary Radich, Tim Loftus, Jennifer Akers, Michael R. Root
  • Patent number: 11112534
    Abstract: A system and method of predicting the financial impact of environmental or geologic events (that include one or more environmental or geologic conditions) by determining a recurrence interval of each past condition in each location, determining the correlation between the past condition and the observable financial impact of the past event, calculating a predicted observable financial impact of each past event, calculating a predicted financial impact of each past event recurring by multiplying the predicted observable financial impact of the past event by the recurrence interval of the past condition, grouping the past events into a plurality of groups based on the predicted financial impact of the past condition recurring, determining a threshold for each group, identifying current or forecasted conditions, and determining the predicted financial impact of the current or forecasted conditions by comparing the current or forecasted conditions with the thresholds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: AccuWeather, Inc.
    Inventors: Rosemary Y. Radich, Tim Loftus, Jennifer Bowers, Paul Roehsner, Paul Raymond, Michael R. Root
  • Publication number: 20200333507
    Abstract: A system and method for forecasting perceived transitions to the four annual seasons in geographic areas is disclosed. The perceived transitions are identified by comparing forecasted daily temperatures in each geographic area to thresholds generated based on normal daily temperatures in those geographic areas. The forecasted daily temperatures may be calculated using both forecasted temperatures and forecasted perceived ambient temperatures (calculated using both temperature and humidity, cloud cover, sun intensity, and/or wind speed).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2018
    Publication date: October 22, 2020
    Applicant: AccuWeather, Inc.
    Inventors: Rosemary RADICH, Tim LOFTUS, Jennifer AKERS, Michael R. ROOT
  • Patent number: 10520645
    Abstract: A system and method of predicting the impact of forecasted weather, environmental, and geologic events (that include one or more weather/environmental/geologic conditions) by determining a recurrence interval of each past condition in each location, determining the correlation between the past condition and the observable impact of the past event, calculating a predicted observable impact of each past event, calculating a predicted impact of each past event recurring by multiplying the predicted observable impact of the past event by the recurrence interval of the past condition, grouping the past events into a plurality of groups based on the predicted impact of the past condition recurring, determining a threshold for each group, receiving forecasted conditions, and determining the predicted impact of the forecasted conditions by comparing the forecasted conditions with the thresholds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: Accuweather, Inc.
    Inventors: Rosemary Y. Radich, Tim Loftus, Jennifer Bowers, Paul Roehsner, Paul Raymond, Michael R. Root
  • Publication number: 20190377103
    Abstract: A system and method of predicting the financial impact of environmental or geologic events (that include one or more environmental or geologic conditions) by determining a recurrence interval of each past condition in each location, determining the correlation between the past condition and the observable financial impact of the past event, calculating a predicted observable financial impact of each past event, calculating a predicted financial impact of each past event recurring by multiplying the predicted observable financial impact of the past event by the recurrence interval of the past condition, grouping the past events into a plurality of groups based on the predicted financial impact of the past condition recurring, determining a threshold for each group, identifying current or forecasted conditions, and determining the predicted financial impact of the current or forecasted conditions by comparing the current or forecasted conditions with the thresholds.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2019
    Publication date: December 12, 2019
    Inventors: Rosemary Y. Radich, Tim Loftus, Jennifer Bowers, Paul Roehsner, Paul Raymond, Michael R. Root
  • Publication number: 20190204475
    Abstract: A system and method for forecasting perceived transitions to the four annual seasons in geographic areas is disclosed. The perceived transitions are identified by comparing forecasted daily temperatures in each geographic area to thresholds generated based on normal daily temperatures in those geographic areas. The forecasted daily temperatures may be calculated using both forecasted temperatures and forecasted perceived ambient temperatures (calculated using both temperature and humidity, cloud cover, sun intensity, and/or wind speed).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2018
    Publication date: July 4, 2019
    Inventors: Rosemary Radich, Tim Loftus, Jennifer Akers, Michael R. Root
  • Publication number: 20180240137
    Abstract: Disclosed is an economic forecast system that overcomes technical problems with conventional systems. Conventional economic forecast systems may analyze past economic behavior and construct statistical models to predict future behavior. When incorporating past weather data, however, conventional systems generate overfitted and/or underfitted models because of the high multicollinearity of weather metrics. The disclosed system overcomes this technical problem with conventional systems by analyzing weather metrics that are divided into groups (based on the multicollinearity of the weather metrics in each group) and generates a statistical model using the one or more most statistically significant weather metrics from each group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2018
    Publication date: August 23, 2018
    Inventors: Rosemary Yeilding Radich, Jennifer Bowers Akers, Tim Loftus, Michael R. Root
  • Publication number: 20170343702
    Abstract: A system and method of predicting the impact of forecasted weather, environmental, and geologic events (that include one or more weather/environmental/geologic conditions) by determining a recurrence interval of each past condition in each location, determining the correlation between the past condition and the observable impact of the past event, calculating a predicted observable impact of each past event, calculating a predicted impact of each past event recurring by multiplying the predicted observable impact of the past event by the recurrence interval of the past condition, grouping the past events into a plurality of groups based on the predicted impact of the past condition recurring, determining a threshold for each group, receiving forecasted conditions, and determining the predicted impact of the forecasted conditions by comparing the forecasted conditions with the thresholds.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2017
    Publication date: November 30, 2017
    Inventors: Rosemary Y. Radich, Tim Loftus, Jennifer Bowers, Paul Roehsner, Paul Raymond, Michael R. Root