US Patent Issued to SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES on April 15 for "Method and system for monitoring a status of a reducer of a gas turbine" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,276,567, issued on April 15, was assigned to SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES (Paris).

"Method and system for monitoring a status of a reducer of a gas turbine" was invented by Josselin Xavier Coupard (Moissy-Cramayel, France) and Almeric Pierre Louis Garnier (Moissy-Cramayel, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for monitoring a status of a reduction gear of a gas turbine includes the steps of: obtaining measurements of parameters accomplished during an operating phase of the gas turbine, these parameters including temperatures of a lubricating oil of the reduction gear at the inlet and at the outlet of the reduction gear, a parameter r...