ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,243,358, issued on March 4, was assigned to GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY (Evendale, Ohio).

"Methods, apparatuses, and storage media to track engine components" was invented by Luis Eduardo Riestra Pagola (Queretaro, Mexico) and Stephen Davis (Eastleight, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatuses, systems, and storage media to track engine components are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a memory; instructions in the apparatus; and processor circuitry to in response to a notification that an engine is undergoing maintenance or in operation, identify an entry in a database that corresponds to the engine, the engi...