ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,559,256, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Airbus SAS (Blagnac, France) and Airbus Operations GmbH (Hamburg, Germany).

"Method for determining a probability of occurrence of a malfunction creating a performance defect in an aircraft" was invented by Jean-Marie Dautelle (Blagnac, France) and Sara Wallinger (Hamburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for determining a probability of occurrence of a malfunction creating a performance defect in an aircraft makes it possible to process a set of input data so as to retain only measurements relevant with regard to determining the probability of occurrence of the malfunction follo...