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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 23, 2014
Filed:
Aug. 02, 2011
Bradley Richard Ree, Cumming, GA (US);
Mark Victor Penna, Wake Forest, NC (US);
George William Alexander, Marietta, GA (US);
Bradley Richard Ree, Cumming, GA (US);
Mark Victor Penna, Wake Forest, NC (US);
George William Alexander, Marietta, GA (US);
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
Described herein are embodiments of methods and systems of using a timer based memory buffer for metrology. One embodiment of the method comprises receiving metrology data from one or more metrology sensors; writing at least part of the metrology data to a volatile memory; incrementing a write pointer to indicate the metrology data contained within the volatile memory; and repeating the above until a timer expires, then reading at least a portion of the metrology data from the volatile memory.