US Patent Issued to RTX on Sept. 8 for "Enveloped mixture of experts model" (Connecticut Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,729,653, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Enveloped mixture of experts model" was invented by Charles Theurkauf (Glastonbury, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for monitoring operation of a gas turbine engine comprises a plurality of expert networks each configured to generate a separate gas path parameter responsive to a separate actuator position. A router network configured to generate a weighting vector responsive to at least one ambient condition parameter. The weighting vector includes a plurality of weighting values each associated with one of the plurality of expert networks. Summing ...