ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,680,884, issued on July 14, was assigned to Rolls-Royce Corp. (Indianapolis) and Rolls-Royce North American Technologies Inc. (Indianapolis).

"Detecting a failure in a thermocouple array" was invented by John Costello (Indianapolis), Robert C. Dalley (Indianapolis) and Douglas Schetzel (Indianapolis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of monitoring a health of a temperature system may comprise selecting a temperature sensor of a plurality of temperature sensors arranged in an array, where each temperature sensor corresponds to an address within the array. The method may comprise identifying the address corresponding to the single tem...