Patents by Inventor William P. Zachar

William P. Zachar 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).

  • Nuclear power plant component identification and verification system and method
    Patent number: 5887041
    Abstract: An automated system for identifying nuclear power plant components includes a camera which provides an input signal from an image of the nuclear power plant components. A digitizer generates a digitized image of the nuclear power plant components from the input signal. A workstation locator routine locates the component identifier of the nuclear power plant components from pixel elements of the digitized image and a workstation determining routine determines the component identifier. The determining routine includes plural recognizer routines each having an output providing an intermediate recognition of the component identifier, and a combining routine combining the outputs of the recognizer routines to recognize the component identifier. Each of the outputs includes an intermediate identifier and a corresponding confidence value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 1997
    Date of Patent: March 23, 1999
    Assignee: Westinghouse Electric Corporation
    Inventors: William P. Zachar, Paul H. Haley, Jean A. Seidel, Philipp F. Schweizer, Ellen K. Hughes, Barry F. Cooney