US Patent Issued to Rennselaer Polytechnic Institute on July 21 for "Multicopter online rotor fault diagnosis system" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,507, issued on July 21, was assigned to Rennselaer Polytechnic Institute (Troy, N.Y.).

"Multicopter online rotor fault diagnosis system" was invented by Fotios Kopsaftopoulos (Niskayuna, N.Y.), Airin Dutta (Troy, N.Y.) and Farhan Gandhi (Loudonville, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multicopter rotor fault diagnosis system includes a multicopter, a plurality of local sensors, and a controller. The multicopter includes a body, a plurality of booms secured to the body, and a plurality of rotors. Each boom has a proximal end secured to the body and extends radially outward to a distal end. Each rotor is secured to the distal end of...