ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,337,999, issued on June 24, was assigned to Lufthansa Technik AG (Hamburg, Germany).

"Method and computer program product for monitoring a bleed air supply system of an aircraft" was invented by Alexej Demeschkin (Mainz, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bleed air supply system has a sensor monitoring the system, an operating condition monitor detecting an operating condition value of the aircraft (other than the bleed air supply system), and independent monitoring modules evaluating a part of the bleed air supply system. The monitoring modules each have an individual monitoring function and individual activation and deactivation ...