ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,486,051, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Computerized aircraft fault isolation" was invented by Partha Adhikari (Bengaluru, India), Surya Pratap Singh Yadav (Bengaluru, India), Bhanu P. Thakur (Bengaluru, India) and Seema Chopra (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for computerized aircraft fault isolation includes, at a computing device, receiving a current maintenance-related pattern that includes a set of one or more digital maintenance messages reported during a flight of an aircraft. The current maintenance-related pattern is compared to a digital maintenance records database t...