US Patent Issued to Rolls-Royce, Rolls-Royce North American Technologies on March 25 for "Fuel unit health monitoring system" (American, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,258,911, issued on March 25, was assigned to Rolls-Royce Corp. (Indianapolis) and Rolls-Royce North American Technologies Inc. (Indianapolis).

"Fuel unit health monitoring system" was invented by Andrew Lee (Indianapolis), Mihir Desai (Yorba Linda, Calif.), Govindaraj Kalyanasamy (Indianapolis) and Mark Collett (Derby, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of monitoring a fuel system in a gas turbine engine. The method may comprise pumping fuel to a combustor from a fuel tank with a pump. The method may comprise controlling a flow of the fuel to the combustor with a metering valve disposed downstream of the pump and clos...