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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 21, 1993
Filed:
Aug. 18, 1989
Applicant:
Inventors:
David W Tong, Scotia, NY (US);
Christopher H Jolly, Schnectady, NY (US);
Kevin C Zalondek, Schnectady, NY (US);
Assignee:
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
371 23 ; 371 151 ; 395 55 ;
Abstract
A method and apparatus for automated generation of multi-branched diagnostic trees is described. The present invention generally is practiced on model-based diagnostic systems and utilizes a candidate generator, constraint propagator and best measurement generator, along with a model of a system to be diagnosed, to generate nodes and branches of a diagnostic tree.