US Patent Issued to RTX on May 5 for "Aircraft engine anomaly detection based on odor, sound, and/or image" (Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,617,549, issued on May 5, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Aircraft engine anomaly detection based on odor, sound, and/or image" was invented by Stephen A. Witalis (Glastonbury, Conn.) and Ramesh Rajagopalan (Glastonbury, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples described herein provide a method for aircraft engine anomaly detection based on an odor. The method includes receiving data indicative of the odor associated with an aircraft engine of an aircraft. The method further includes analyzing the data to determine whether an anomaly associated with the aircraft has occurred. The method further includes responsive to d...