ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,630,302, issued on May 19, was assigned to AIRBUS HELICOPTERS (Marignane Cedex, France).

"Automatic diagnostic method for at least one engine equipping an aircraft, aircraft and arrangement implementing the method" was invented by Florent Esterle (Salon de Provence, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automatic diagnostic method for monitoring a state of health of at least one engine equipping an aircraft, the method comprising the periodic in-flight acquisition of a plurality of flight data, with sensors, the plurality of flight data being representative of a plurality of physico-chemical parameters, the identification, with a contr...