ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,397,931, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Airbus Operations SAS (Toulouse, France).
"Method for monitoring an aircrafts air bleed lines" was invented by Franck Dessertenne (Toulouse, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for monitoring the integrity of a set of air bleed lines from propulsion engines of an aircraft by: at the start of a use of the aircraft, sending air from an auxiliary power unit into the various lines; over a predetermined period of time, acquiring temperature measurements from temperature sensors associated with the lines; for each line, determining a gradient for rate of change in temperature with respect ...