US Patent Issued to BLADE DIAGNOSTICS on April 15 for "Techniques for automated maintenance of integrally bladed rotors" (Florida, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,275,105, issued on April 15, was assigned to BLADE DIAGNOSTICS Corp. (Pittsburgh).

"Techniques for automated maintenance of integrally bladed rotors" was invented by Jerry H. Griffin (Dunedin, Fla.), Drew M. Feiner (Pittsburgh), Blair E. Echols (Pittsburgh), Michael J. Cushman (Pittsburgh), Alex J. Kowalski (Pittsburgh) and Daniel J. Ryan (Oviedo, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for maintaining integrally bladed rotors (IBR) includes using first vibration data from a IBR vibration apparatus of a first IBR to determine a set of values for a corresponding set of inherent vibratory properties based on a reduced ord...