Patents by Inventor William T. Donovan

William T. Donovan 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: 9908712
    Abstract: A system and method for servicing a rotor of a generator are presented. The system includes a carriage for carrying the rotor. At least one carriage steering device are arranged on the carriage for steering the carriage when traversing along a removal skid during servicing the rotor. The carriage steering device is attached to the carriage in a way that it is accessible from above the carriage. The carriage steering device is adjustable such that a center of the carriage aligns to a center rail of the removal skid when traversing along the removal skid during servicing the rotor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2018
    Assignee: SIEMENS ENERGY, INC.
    Inventors: James B. Edwards, William T. Donovan, Cezar Cisloiu
  • Publication number: 20170129712
    Abstract: A system and method for servicing a rotor of a generator are presented. The system includes a carriage for carrying the rotor. At least one carriage steering device are arranged on the carriage for steering the carriage when traversing along a removal skid during servicing the rotor. The carriage steering device is attached to the carriage in a way that it is accessible from above the carriage. The carriage steering device is adjustable such that a center of the carriage aligns to a center rail of the removal skid when traversing along the removal skid during servicing the rotor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2015
    Publication date: May 11, 2017
    Inventors: James B. Edwards, William T. Donovan, Cezar Cisloiu
  • Patent number: 5893905
    Abstract: A system and method for monitoring the performance of selected data processing jobs, comparing actual performance against the Service Level Agreement (SLA) to which each monitored job belongs, identifying discrepancies, and analyzing impacts to other jobs in a job stream. The present invention, also referred to as the Automated SLA Monitor (ASM), is a distributed computing platform comprising one or more Production Consoles for extracting job performance data from the production mainframe computers (or production midrange computers in other embodiments), one or more Production Servers for housing databases, one or more Maintenance Workstations for entering and maintaining SLA data, and one or more Client Workstations for presenting selected data to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 1996
    Date of Patent: April 13, 1999
    Assignee: MCI Communications Corporation
    Inventors: Anthony A. Main, Burt L. Crockett, Ann Oneta Haehn, Michael R. McIntyre, John Fitzgerald Baker, William T. Donovan, Jr., Richard W. Lindgren, Jr., Wayne C. McAvoy