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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
May. 28, 2019

Filed:

Dec. 13, 2016
Applicant:

The Boeing Company, Chicago, IL (US);

Inventors:

Charles E. Martin, Westlake Village, CA (US);

Tsai-Ching Lu, Thousand Oaks, CA (US);

Alice A. Murphy, Mesa, AZ (US);

Christopher R. Wezdenko, Mesa, AZ (US);

Steve Slaughter, Scottsdale, AZ (US);

Assignee:

The Boeing Company, Chicago, IL (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G07C 5/08 (2006.01); G06K 9/62 (2006.01); G06K 9/46 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G07C 5/0808 (2013.01); G06K 9/4628 (2013.01); G06K 9/6244 (2013.01); G07C 5/08 (2013.01); G07C 5/085 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method for determining a vehicle system prognosis includes detecting a predetermined characteristic of a vehicle with one or more sensors, obtaining a plurality of sensor signals corresponding to the predetermined characteristic, receiving the plurality of sensor signals from the one or more sensors and determining an input time series of data based on the sensor signals, generating, a matrix of time series data based on the input time series of data, clustering the matrix of time series data based on predetermined clustering criteria into a predetermined number of clusters, generating a sparse temporal matrix based on the predetermined number of clusters, extracting extracted features that are indicative of an operation of a vehicle system from the sparse temporal matrix and determining an operational status of the vehicle system based on the extracted features, and communicating the operational status of the vehicle system to an operator or crew member of the vehicle.


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