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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 29, 2014
Filed:
Nov. 30, 2010
Applicant:
Raymond Verle Jensen, Gardnerville, NV (US);
Inventor:
Raymond Verle Jensen, Gardnerville, NV (US);
Assignee:
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Embodiments of the invention described herein use an output of an energy harvester as an indication of the operating state of the machine, device, or process the energy harvester is associated with. In one aspect, a system is described. The system is comprised of at least one of a machine or process, a processor, and an energy harvesting device associated with the machine or process. The processor is configured to use an output of the energy harvesting device created by the machine or process to determine whether the machine or process is in a first operating state or a second operating state.