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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:
Aug. 09, 2022

Filed:

Nov. 19, 2020
Applicant:

General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);

Inventors:

Sm Shajedul Hasan, Rexford, NY (US);

Lembit Salasoo, Schenectady, NY (US);

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

Assignee:

General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G08B 21/00 (2006.01); G08B 21/02 (2006.01); G08B 7/06 (2006.01); G06Q 50/08 (2012.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G08B 21/02 (2013.01); G06Q 50/08 (2013.01); G08B 7/06 (2013.01);
Abstract

A system for generating hazard alerts is provided. The system includes a sensor unit including a plurality of sensors and a locating device and a hazard analyzing (HA) computing device configured to communicate with the sensor unit. The HA computing device includes a memory device and a 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 received locations, a location of the sensor unit during each sensor measurement of the plurality of sensor measurements, compute, based on at least one of the plurality of sensor measurements and the determined locations, a plurality of sub-risk scores, compute a risk score based on the sub-risk scores, and determine that a first alert condition is present in response to the risk score being greater than a threshold risk score.


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