ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,030, issued on March 18, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).
"In-flight engine re-start" was invented by David Wasselin (Farmington, Conn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples described herein provide a method for restarting an engine of an aircraft during a flight of the aircraft. The method includes detecting a shutdown of the engine. The method further includes setting a flag to prevent a quick-relight situation. The method further includes performing an auto-relight procedure to attempt to restart the engine. The method further includes, responsive to determining that the auto-relight procedure failed to restart th...