US Patent Issued to ROLLS-ROYCE DEUTSCHLAND on March 25 for "Method and system of monitoring a component of an aircraft" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,258,905, issued on March 25, was assigned to ROLLS-ROYCE DEUTSCHLAND LTD & CO KG (Blankenfelde-Mahlow, Germany).

"Method and system of monitoring a component of an aircraft" was invented by Carlos Enrique Diaz (Garching, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gas turbine engine for an aircraft that includes a nacelle, a fan, an engine core, a bypass duct extending between the engine core and the nacelle and guiding a bypass airflow through the bypass duct, and at least one non-structural strut extending in the radial direction within the bypass duct, wherein the non-structural strut includes an outside wall acting as a heat exchanger,...