ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,680,468, issued on July 14, was assigned to Unison Industries LLC (Jacksonville, Fla.).

"Aircraft engine starter having an integrated data acquisition system" was invented by Pallavi Tripathi (Bengaluru, India), Nagendra Baddam (Bengaluru, India), Shiloh Montegomery Meyers (Miamisburg, Ohio), Brian Christopher Kemp (Troy, Ohio) and Domala Uma Maheshwar (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An air turbine starter system of an aircraft includes an air turbine starter having a data acquisition system disposed thereon. The data acquisition system includes a data acquisition controller, a memory device, and a set of starter sensors...