US Patent Issued to Rosemount Aerospace on Oct. 7 for "Predicting failure and/or estimating remaining useful life of an air-data-probe heater" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,202, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Rosemount Aerospace Inc. (Burnsville, Minn.).

"Predicting failure and/or estimating remaining useful life of an air-data-probe heater" was invented by Kaare Josef Anderson (Farmington, Minn.) and Magdi A. Essawy (Lakeville, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus and associated methods relate to predicting failure and/or estimating remaining useful life of an air-data-probe heater. Failure is predicted or useful life is estimated based on an electrical metric of the electrical operating power provided to a resistive heating element of the air-data-probe heater. The electrical metric of the...