US Patent Issued to THE BOEING on April 14 for "Determining the condition of moving parts of aircraft" (Missouri, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,658, issued on April 14, was assigned to THE BOEING COMPANY (Arlington, Va.).

"Determining the condition of moving parts of aircraft" was invented by Daniel David Gilbertson (Florissant, Mo.) and John Lyle Vian (Renton, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for assessing an operational condition of an uncrewed air transport platform are presented. The techniques include: arranging the uncrewed air transport platform and at least one external sensor in proximity to each other, where the at least one external sensor includes a vibration sensor; executing a sequence of operations of the uncrewed air transport platform; acquir...