ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,410,752, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).

"System and method of detecting an airflow fault condition" was invented by Brandon Wayne Miller (Liberty Township, Ohio), Jeffrey Douglas Rambo (Mason, Ohio), Daniel Alan Niergarth (Norwood, Ohio) and Scott Alan Schimmels (Miamisburg, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of detecting an airflow fault condition in a gas turbine engine, the method including: operating the gas turbine engine with a thermal transport bus having an intermediary heat exchange fluid flowing therethrough; determining a performance characteristic of the intermediary heat ...