US Patent Issued to Airbus Operations on March 3 for "Shared sensor grid and method for sharing sensor grid" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,568,142, issued on March 3, was assigned to Airbus Operations GmbH (Hamburg, Germany).

"Shared sensor grid and method for sharing sensor grid" was invented by Bing Chen (Hamburg, Germany) and Bruno Fernandes (Hamburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network, a particularly on board of an aircraft, such as a cabin network or a cargo bay network, comprises at least one central signaling backbone, a plurality of distributed sensor nodes connected to the central signaling backbone, and a plurality of network devices connected to the central signaling backbone. Each of the plurality of distributed sensor nodes includes one or more se...