General Electric Company

Other

Vetco Gray Inc.

John William Carbone

Benjamin Edward Beckmann

Joseph James Salvo

Peter Koudal

Daniel John Messier

Scott Charles Evans

Patricia Denise Mackenzie

Lynn Ann DeRose

Walter Charles Yund

Dan Yang

Charles Burton Theurer

Li Zhang

Adam Joseph McCann

Michael Leslie Todt

Annarita Giani

Bouchra Bouqata

John Madelone

William Leonard

Lalit Keshav Mestha

John Erik Hershey

James Alfred Day

Daniel White Sexton

Michael Joseph Dell'Anno

Norberto Silvi

Mark Howard Giammattei

Michael Solomon Idelchik

John Yupeng Gui

Navjot Singh

Daniel Francis Holzhauer

Shaopeng Liu

John P Banevicius

Todd Ryan Tolliver

Eric J Pearce

Judith Ann Guzzo

John Anderson Ross

Robert Dean

Joseph Edward Jesson

Patrick Kennedy Patnode

Roman Brusilovsky

Matthew John Englund

Michael Dell'Ano

Anilkumar Vadali

Gerardo Rocha Galicia

Junrong Yan

Patricia MacKenzie

Douglas Peters

Ben Nielsen

According to some embodiments, a system may include an additive manufacturing platform that provides additive manufacturing capability data. A customer platform, associated with a customer, may transmit an industrial asset item request for an industrial asset item. A digital transaction engine may receive the additive manufacturing capability data and the industrial asset item request. The digital transaction engine may then associate the industrial asset item request with an industrial asset definition file, and, based on the additive manufacturing capability data and the industrial asset definition file, assign the industrial asset item request to the additive manufacturing platform. The assignment of the industrial asset item request may be recorded via a secure, distributed transaction ledger. Responsive to the assignment, the additive manufacturing platform may create the industrial asset item (e.g., via an additive manufacturing printer) and provide the item to the customer.

Intellectual property exchange ecosystem for additive manufacturing

Some embodiments provide a system to facilitate transaction processing associated with an industrial asset supply chain having a first entity and a second entity. A first entity computer processor may retrieve, from a first entity database, information associated with pre-delivery data about the industrial asset. The first entity computer processor may then record pre-delivery data about the industrial asset via a secure, distributed transaction ledger. A second entity computer processor may retrieve, from a second entity database, information associated with a post-delivery event involving the industrial asset. The second entity computer processor may then record post-delivery event data about the industrial asset via a secure, distributed transaction ledger. The post-delivery event data might indicate, for example, that the industrial asset has been delivered, has been installed, is working properly, has been used, etc.

Blockchain enabled transaction processing for an industrial asset supply chain

According to some embodiments, a system may facilitate collaborative transaction processing associated with a supply chain having a first entity and a second entity. In particular, a first entity database may store electronic records including information associated with at least a portion of the supply chain, and a first entity communication port may exchange information via a distributed computer system. A first entity computer processor may retrieve from the first entity database the information associated with the at least a portion of the supply chain. A subset of information about the supply chain may be identified by the first entity computer processor as being of interest to the second entity. The identified subset of information about the supply chain may then be recorded via a secure, distributed transaction ledger.

Blockchain enabled collaborative transaction information processing for a supply chain

According to some embodiments, a system to facilitate hierarchical data exchange may include an aggregation platform data store containing electronic records. A data aggregation platform may collect, from a plurality of data source devices, information associated with a plurality of data sources and store the collected information into the aggregation platform data store. The data aggregation platform may also receive a data request from a data consumer device, and, responsive to the received data request, determine a precision tier associated with the data request. The data aggregation platform may then automatically calculate a resource value for the data request based on the precision tier. It may then be arranged for information from the aggregation platform data store to be modified and transmitted to the data consumer device.

Hierarchical data exchange management system

According to some embodiments, a computer processor may receive an item definition file containing a volumetric description of the three-dimensional item and create a compressed item definition file including a compressed volumetric description of the three-dimensional item. For example, the item definition file may include a plurality of item slices, from a bottom item slice to a top item slice, each item slice describing a two-dimensional portion of the three-dimensional item. For at least some of the item slices, the computer processor may encode data in the item definition file describing a particular item slice in terms of differences between that particular item slice and another item slice (e.g., a neighboring item slice directly below that particular item slice or an anchor item slice below that particular item slice).

Encoding volumetric data to support trusted transaction delivery

A verification platform may include a data connection to receive a stream of industrial asset data, including a subset of the industrial asset data, from industrial asset sensors. The verification platform may store the subset of industrial asset data into a data store, the subset of industrial asset data being marked as invalid, and record a hash value associated with a compressed representation of the subset of industrial asset data combined with metadata in a secure, distributed ledger (e.g., associated with blockchain technology). The verification platform may then receive a transaction identifier from the secure, distributed ledger and mark the subset of industrial asset data in the data store as being valid after using the transaction identifier to verify that the recorded hash value matches a hash value of an independently created version of the compressed representation of the subset of industrial asset data combined with metadata.

Industrial data verification using secure, distributed ledger

According to some embodiments, a system may include an additive manufacturing platform that provides additive manufacturing capability data (e.g., a printer model number, a printer resolution, etc.) to a model customization platform. The model customization platform may receive the additive manufacturing printer capability data and retrieve, from an additive manufacturing model data database, a primary engineering model associated with an industrial asset item. The model customization platform may then create a customized version of the primary engineering model in accordance with the additive manufacturing printer capability data and the primary engineering model. The customized engineering model can then be transmitted to the additive manufacturing platform (e.g., to be printed to create the industrial asset item).

Distribution of customized engineering models for additive manufacturing

According to some embodiments, a lossless protection procedure may be applied to control distribution of a print geometry of an industrial asset item. For example, an item definition data store may contain electronic records defining a geometry of the industrial asset item. A signature identifier encoder platform may determine a unique signature identifier associated with the industrial asset item and modify the geometry of the industrial asset item to encode therein information about the unique signature identifier. In some cases, for example, this may be done by adjusting a scanning pattern of a fill region (e.g., stripe, checkerboard, etc.) or a support structure of the industrial asset item. An authentication platform may then receive, from a sensor (e.g., an X-ray), a measured characteristic parameter of an item to be authenticated and determine a signature identifier of the item (which can be used to authenticate the item).

System and method to protect items associated with additive manufacturing

An original transaction data store may provide information about a series of transactions over time. A transaction data collection platform may group some of those transactions into a subset of transactions and apply a hash function to that subset to create a signature representing verifiable state information associated with an enterprise. The transaction data collection platform may then record information about the signature via a secure, distributed transaction meta-ledger without recording the subset of transactions. According to some embodiments, a transaction audit platform may retrieve the signature from the meta-ledger and retrieve original information associated with the subset of transactions (e.g., from an offline original transaction data store). The transaction audit platform may then apply the hash function to the original information to re-create an original signature, compare the retrieved signature with the original signature, and output an indication of a verification result of the comparison.

Hierarchical meta-ledger transaction recording

A system and method for monitoring a condition of a marine riser including at least one subsea sensing and acoustic platform mechanically coupled to a riser joint of the marine riser. The at least one platform includes one or more sensors mechanically coupled to the riser joint and including plug-and-play sensor interface technology. The platform further includes a microprocessor configured to receive and analyze sensor data from the one or more sensors and provide pre-processed data representative of a determination of a condition of the riser joint. A memory module is provided including one or more software modules executable by the microprocessor and configured to provide data storage. The platform further includes an acoustic modem configured to receive the pre-processed data, communicate the condition to a topside acoustic transceiver in real-time and provide remote command configuration in response to the condition. An included power module provides power to the platform components.

Marine riser management system including subsea acoustic monitoring platform and an associated method

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