ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,597, issued on March 24, was assigned to Pratt & Whitney Canada Corp. (Longueuil, Canada).

"Monitoring operability of electrical parameter sensors for aircraft system" was invented by Raphael Gariepy (Montreal), Antwan Shenouda (Mississauga, Canada), Remi Robache (Montreal) and James Jarvo (Long Sault, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of operation is provided during which an electric motor of an aircraft is powered using a power supply. The power supply includes a plurality of power strings electrically coupled in parallel. The powering includes: outputting string electricity from each of the power strings; and outputt...