US Patent Issued to HAMILTON SUNDSTRAND on May 13 for "Detecting condition of a shaft of a gas turbofan aircraft engine" (Massachusetts, Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,297,782, issued on May 13, was assigned to HAMILTON SUNDSTRAND Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Detecting condition of a shaft of a gas turbofan aircraft engine" was invented by Edward John Marotta (Longmeadow, Mass.), Geoffrey T. Blackwell (Vernon, Conn.) and James A. Gosse (Storrs, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus and associated methods are disclosed that relate to detecting a shaft condition of a gas turbofan engine. Shaft condition is detected based on sensed rotation rates of the shaft at different shaft locations. If the sensed rotations rates of the shaft at the two different shaft locations are indicative of a compromised ...