ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,283, issued on March 17, was assigned to HAMILTON SUNDSTRAND Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).
"Aircraft fuel system contamination detector" was invented by Suresh Babu Kappa Venkata (Karnataka, India) and Srikanth Annumandla (Telangana, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fuel tank system is disclosed. The fuel tank system includes a fuel tank and a detection system associated with the fuel tank. The detection system includes a source device emitting light into the fuel tank and an analysis device. The analysis device includes a collection device capturing scattered light resulting from the emitted light interacting with fuel in the fuel...