US Patent Issued to AIRBUS OPERATIONS, AIRBUS OPERATIONS (S.A.S.) on March 18 for "Monitoring friction associated with a plurality of aircraft wheels" (British, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,273, issued on March 18, was assigned to AIRBUS OPERATIONS Ltd. (Bristol, Great Britain) and AIRBUS OPERATIONS (S.A.S.) (Toulouse, France).

"Monitoring friction associated with a plurality of aircraft wheels" was invented by Vincent Nicolas (Toulouse, France) and Jamie McGirr (Bristol, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of monitoring friction associated with a plurality of aircraft wheels of an aircraft, the method including, for each of the plurality of aircraft wheels, obtaining wheel speed data associated with the aircraft wheel. The method includes determining, based at least in part on the wheel speed data, d...