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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 19, 2024
Filed:
Nov. 04, 2022
Applicant:
GE Aviation Systems Limited, Cheltenham, GB;
Inventors:
Timothy Robert North, Southampton, GB;
Tod Alexander Gilbert, Hampshire, GB;
Steven Bonnett, Hampshire, GB;
Assignee:
GE AVIATION SYSTEMS LIMITED, Cheltenham, GB;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B64D 45/00 (2006.01); B64F 5/60 (2017.01); F16H 57/01 (2012.01); G07C 5/00 (2006.01); G07C 5/08 (2006.01); H04L 12/40 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B64D 45/00 (2013.01); B64F 5/60 (2017.01); G07C 5/008 (2013.01); G07C 5/0808 (2013.01); G07C 5/0816 (2013.01); B64D 2045/0085 (2013.01); F16H 57/01 (2013.01); F16H 2057/012 (2013.01); H04L 2012/4028 (2013.01);
Abstract
Techniques for employing a smart sensor device that has a primary sensing function for sensing a state of a physical component and can concurrently enable one or more backup functions for sensing one or more states of one or more other physicals components in response to one or more other smart sensor devices not being able to perform their primary function of sensing and/or reporting on the one or more states of the one or more other physical components.