ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,528,597, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to LEONARDO S.P.A. (Rome).

"Method and system for detecting anomalies relating to components of a transmission system of an aircraft, in particular a helicopter" was invented by Mara Tanelli (Milan), Jessica Leoni (Milan), Alberto Bellazzi (Samarate, Italy), Francesca Bianchi (Samarate, Italy), Luigi Bottasso (Samarate, Italy) and Andrea Palman (Samarate, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method is described for detecting anomalies in a transmission system of an aircraft equipped with a monitoring system, which includes a number of sensors coupled to the transmission syst...