US Patent Issued to NORTHROP GRUMMAN SYSTEMS on May 13 for "Systems and methods for aerial vehicle mission and maintenance planning" (Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,978, issued on May 13, was assigned to NORTHROP GRUMMAN SYSTEMS Corp. (Falls Church, Va.).

"Systems and methods for aerial vehicle mission and maintenance planning" was invented by Nathan D. Plawecki (Melbourne, Fla.), Kenneth A. Crooks (Melbourne, Fla.), Angel A. Lopez De Victoria (Melbourne, Fla.) and David M. Wernert (Melbourne, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed herein for influencing mission planning, vehicle maintenance, and identifying an aerial vehicle that provide a greatest probability of mission success. In some examples, a dynamic reliability model of dynamic reliability models can be up...