Patents by Inventor William Kent Rutan

William Kent Rutan 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).

  • Systems and methods for identifying machine anomaly root cause based on a selected reduced order model and a selected fault model
    Patent number: 11899527
    Abstract: A method for identifying a cause of a machine operating anomaly including creating a reduced order model (ROMs) for a digital twin model of a selected machine type and feeding current data from a deployed machine into the ROM. The method can include comparing a current output from the selected ROM with a measured output from the current data and determining that an operating anomaly exists when the difference between the current output and the measured output exceeds a selected anomaly threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.
    Inventors: David J. Lin, Tyler P. Jewell, Daniel J. Organ, Vivek Sundararaj, Vijay K. Yalamanchili, Chanyoung Park, William Kent Rutan, Kaimei Sun
  • SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IDENTIFYING MACHINE ANOMALY ROOT CAUSE
    Publication number: 20230168961
    Abstract: A method for identifying a cause of a machine operating anomaly including creating a reduced order model (ROMs) for a digital twin model of a selected machine type and feeding current data from a deployed machine into the ROM. The method can include comparing a current output from the selected ROM with a measured output from the current data and determining that an operating anomaly exists when the difference between the current output and the measured output exceeds a selected anomaly threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2021
    Publication date: June 1, 2023
    Inventors: David J. Lin, Tyler P. Jewell, Daniel J. Organ, Vivek Sundararaj, Vijay K. Yalamanchili, Chanyoung Park, William Kent Rutan, Kaimei Sun
  • Simulation engine for a performance validation system
    Publication number: 20070150254
    Abstract: A method of simulating performance characteristics of a product to be manufactured includes identifying a plurality of simulation modules each representative of one or more components of the product. The method also includes linking the plurality of simulation modules together to provide a model capable of generating an output associated with one or more performance characteristics of the product and running at least some of the simulation models in parallel to provide performance information related to the one or more performance characteristics of the product. The method can also include outputting the performance information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2006
    Publication date: June 28, 2007
    Inventors: Cathy Y. Choi, Stephen A. Faulkner, William Kent Rutan, James Joseph Faletti, Eric C. Fluga, Robert Michael McDavid, Donald B. Edwards, Mark D. Anderson, Adam John Covell