US Patent Issued to RTX on July 7 for "Method and apparatus for analyzing and predicting future degradation of gas turbine engine components and determining if components made from counterfeit materials" (Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,675,863, issued on July 7, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Method and apparatus for analyzing and predicting future degradation of gas turbine engine components and determining if components made from counterfeit materials" was invented by Timothy Sweda (Lexington, Conn.) and Adam Knapp (West Hartford, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for a component of a gas turbine engine includes obtaining images of the component for a plurality of sequential inspection time periods, at least a portion of the images depicting degradation of the component. A first machine learning model (MLM) includes an input layer, an outp...