US Patent Issued to Pratt & Whitney Canada on March 18 for "Method and system for monitoring a bleed valve of a gas turbine engine" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,431, issued on March 18, was assigned to Pratt & Whitney Canada Corp. (Longueuil, Canada).

"Method and system for monitoring a bleed valve of a gas turbine engine" was invented by Roja Tabar (Boucherville, Canada) and Alireza Gharagozloo (Boucherville, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for monitoring a bleed valve of an aircraft engine includes obtaining operational data of the aircraft engine, the operational data indicative of operational performance of the aircraft engine. The method further includes utilizing one or more neural networks to determine a health status of a bleed valve of the aircraft engine based on th...