ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,478, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Fluid Power AI LLC (San Diego).

"Systems and methods for monitoring equipment" was invented by Brenton Parr Munson (San Diego), Francis Mitchell Toglia (San Diego) and Jose Maria Guadalupe Gomez (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for monitoring an aerial vehicle using a sensor cluster are described. The systems and methods can be used to automatically repair or otherwise address actual and predicted failure modes of the aerial vehicle."

The patent was filed on July 6, 2023, under Application No. 18/347,863.

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