US Patent Issued to The Boeing on Dec. 16 for "Methods and apparatus for generating usage severity indices" (Pennsylvania, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,497,182, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Methods and apparatus for generating usage severity indices" was invented by Yi Lu (Media, Pa.), Jesse K. Senyo (Wallingford, Pa.), Chandrakant Patel (Deptford, N.J.) and Michael D. Malason (Mickleton, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus for generating usage severity indices are disclosed herein. An example apparatus includes interface circuitry, machine readable instructions, and programmable circuitry to at least one of instantiate or execute the machine readable instructions to determine a first usage severity index for a drive system o...