US Patent Issued to Airbus Operations, Liebherr-Aerospace Lindenger on Oct. 6 for "Method and apparatus for conducting health monitoring" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,752,929, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Airbus Operations GmbH (Hamburg, Germany) and Liebherr-Aerospace Lindenger GmbH (Lindenberg, Germany).

"Method and apparatus for conducting health monitoring" was invented by Andreas Fledderman (Hamburg, Germany), Jan Arend Van Bruggen (Hamburg, Germany), Christian Kohloffel (Lindenberg, Germany), Tobias Hartmann (Lindenberg, Germany) and Elko Van Balen (Lindenberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A health monitoring method for checking a functionality of a flight control surface driving apparatus using a load sensor for sensing a load imposed on a control surface drive device by: blocking...