US Patent Issued to HAMILTON SUNDSTRAND on Sept. 15 for "Smart IOT controller for gathering and transmitting aircraft health information during flight" (Illinois, Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,735,194, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to HAMILTON SUNDSTRAND Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Smart IOT controller for gathering and transmitting aircraft health information during flight" was invented by Dan Ezenekwe (Calumet City, Ill.) and Thomas Wiegele (Saint Paul, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the disclosure provide an aircraft health monitoring system having an in-flight controller. The controller is configured to, responsive to a determination that an aircraft is in-flight, access a sensor network system of the aircraft to generate in-flight system health (IFSH) information. A transmission operation is initiat...