US Patent Issued to GOODRICH on May 27 for "System for detecting heater failure by thermal image" (Ohio, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,140, issued on May 27, was assigned to GOODRICH Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"System for detecting heater failure by thermal image" was invented by Nathaniel Ching (Hartville, Ohio), Galdemir C. Botura (Copley, Ohio) and Jin Hu (Cary, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides for heater failure detection assemblies/systems and related methods of fabrication and use. More particularly, the present disclosure provides for heater failure detection assemblies/systems for aircraft or the like, with the heater failure detection assemblies/systems utilizing thermal images to detect the operation or failure of an aircra...