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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:
Apr. 12, 2022

Filed:

Nov. 19, 2020
Applicant:

General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);

Inventors:

Lembit Salasoo, Schenectady, NY (US);

Cheng-Po Chen, Niskayuna, NY (US);

S M Shajedul Hasan, Rexford, NY (US);

Assignee:

GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY, Schenectady, NY (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01C 21/00 (2006.01); G08B 21/04 (2006.01); G06F 1/16 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G08B 21/0453 (2013.01); G01C 21/005 (2013.01); G06F 1/163 (2013.01);
Abstract

A system for detecting and mapping hazards is provided. The system includes at least one sensor unit including a plurality of sensors and a locating device and a hazard mapping (HM) computing device. The HM computing device includes at least one processor configured to receive, from the plurality of sensors, a plurality of sensor measurements, receive, from the locating device, a plurality of sensor locations, determine, based on the sensor locations, a location of the sensor unit during each sensor measurement of the plurality of sensor measurements, identify, for each determined location, a first location identifier of a first plurality of location identifiers, compare each sensor measurement corresponding to the first location identifier to a reference sensor level of the identified first location identifier, and determine that an alert condition is present based on the comparison.


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