ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,492,013, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to SAFRAN (Paris).

"Method for evaluating the relative state of an aircraft engine" was invented by Edouard Guy Henri Marie Pineau (Moissy Cramayel, France), Sebastien Philippe Razakarivony (Moissy Cramayel, France) and Thomas Pierre Louis Bonald (Voisins le Bretonneux, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for evaluating the state of an aircraft engine for a given flight, each flight of the aircraft being associated with one time-domain series, includes, each time maintenance of the aircraft is performed, creating a dataset including the time-domain series associated with each flight carri...