US Patent Issued to Rosemount Aerospace on May 5 for "Algorithm for independent detection of probe blockages" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,618,863, issued on May 5, was assigned to Rosemount Aerospace Inc. (Burnsville, Minn.).

"Algorithm for independent detection of probe blockages" was invented by Jacob Meyer (New Prague, Minn.) and Jacob Brown (Minnetonka, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A blockage detection system for detecting aircraft probe blockages includes a processor, a communication device, and computer-readable memory. The computer-readable memory encoded with instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the system to execute a blockage detection algorithm. The processor receives a static pressure and an impact pressure from one or more aircraft pr...