US Patent Issued to Blade Diagnostics on Feb. 17 for "Integrally bladed disk life cycle management utilizing vibratory DNA" (Pennsylvania, Louisiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,553,359, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Blade Diagnostics Corp. (Pittsburgh).

"Integrally bladed disk life cycle management utilizing vibratory DNA" was invented by Jerry H. Griffin (Pittsburgh), Drew M. Feiner (New Orleans) and Blair Echols (Pittsburgh).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vibratory DNA is defined which uniquely characterizes the vibratory state of each integrally bladed disk (IBD) of a fleet and devolves the complex vibrational responses of the IBDs into simple metadata which can be stored in a database and manipulated for various fleet health management purposes. Vibratory DNA can be developed from test apparatus vibra...