US Patent Issued to GE Avio on May 6 for "Aircraft performance optimization based on engine performance monitoring" (American, Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,291,344, issued on May 6, was assigned to GE Avio S.r.l. (Rivalta di Torino, Italy).

"Aircraft performance optimization based on engine performance monitoring" was invented by Mehdi M. Baladi (Cincinnati), Aniello Esposito (Turin, Italy), Sridhar Adibhatla (Glendale, Ohio) and Kathleen K. Collins (Lynn, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for optimizing performance of an aircraft or boat through detection and trending of engine deterioration based on the performance of the vehicle's gas turbine. The system and method detects declines in engine power due to either of in-transit events or over the extended lifetime of ...