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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Sep. 10, 2024

Filed:

Jun. 11, 2020
Applicants:

Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development, Doha, QA;

The Boeing Company, Chicago, IL (US);

Inventors:

Mohamed M. Elshrif, Doha, QA;

Sanjay Chawla, Doha, QA;

Franz D. Betz, Seattle, WA (US);

Dragos D. Margineantu, Bellevue, WA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B64F 5/60 (2017.01); B64F 5/40 (2017.01); B64D 45/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B64F 5/60 (2017.01); B64F 5/40 (2017.01); B64D 2045/0085 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method for identifying aircraft faults, comprising: receiving aircraft health dataset comprising plurality of maintenance identifiers which each identify aircraft fault; storing diagnostics database storing plurality of part identifiers which each identify part of aircraft which is possible cause of generation of at least one maintenance identifier; generating graph of plurality of maintenance identifiers and plurality of edges in which maintenance identifiers are connected to one another by edge if maintenance identifiers are identified by common part identifier in diagnostics database; extracting clique from graph, clique comprising plurality of maintenance identifiers and respective plurality of edges of graph; determining intersection between at least two edges of clique; identifying candidate part identifier which is common to intersecting edges of clique, candidate part identifier identifying part of aircraft which is possible cause of generation of at least some of maintenance identifiers of clique; and outputting candidate part identifier.


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