ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,264,990, issued on April 1, was assigned to LIEBHERR-AEROSPACE TOULOUSE SAS (Toulouse, France).

"Method and a system for monitoring the state of an exchanger in an air circuit of an aircraft" was invented by Jose Ribeiro (Toulouse, France), Didier Dubaele (Toulouse, France), Alexis Castelein (Toulouse, France), Nicolas Canouet (Toulouse, France) and Fanny Morel (Toulouse, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and a system are provided for monitoring the state of a heat exchanger (17) in an air circuit (5) of an aircraft (7), the heat exchanger being intended to cool the air extracted from a source of a main hot air source of the...