US Patent Issued to Pratt & Whitney Canada on Oct. 7 for "Identifying fault in torque signal / torque sensor for aircraft system" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,179, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Pratt & Whitney Canada Corp. (Longueuil, Canada).

"Identifying fault in torque signal / torque sensor for aircraft system" was invented by Andrew Ghattas (La Prairie, Canada), Michael P. Smith (Mississauga, Canada) and Charles Bolon-Bruhn (Longueuil, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is provided for operating an aircraft system. During this method, a shaft of an aircraft powerplant is rotated. A torque signal is received indicative of a torque applied to the shaft while the shaft is rotating. A noise parameter is determined indicative of noise in the torque signal. A fault is identif...