ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,246,854, issued on March 11, was assigned to Kitty Hawk Corp. (Palo Alto, Calif.).
"Motor wear metric generator" was invented by Dennis Young Kwon (San Jose, Calif.) and Alexander David Selwa (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "First and second signals respectively associated with first and second motors are obtained. First and second motor wear metric that respectively represent an amount of wear associated with the first and second motors are determined based at least in part on the first and second signals, respectively. It is determined whether at least one of the first or second motor wear metrics exceeds a failure thresh...