ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,286,985, issued on April 29, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Chicago).
"Method and system for monitoring hydraulic accumulator pressure" was invented by Morgan Michael Plamondon (Mukilteo, Wash.), Bradley M. Gilmer (Seattle), John Watson (Lynnwood, Wash.) and Charles Filipiak (Lynnwood, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is provided for determining a gas charge pressure PcalcGC of a hydraulic accumulator within a hydraulic fluid system. The method includes receiving pressure decay data representing the pressure decay within a self-pressurizing hydraulic reservoir of the hydraulic fluid system as the self-pressurizing hydraulic ...