ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 27 -- Boeing, Seattle, has been assigned a patent (8,340,996) developed by Scott Edwin Black, Godfrey, Ill., and Kirby Joe Keller, Chesterfield, Mo., for a "method for analyzing maintenance operations and assessing the readiness of repairable systems."
The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An automated method for assessing the readiness of a plurality of repairable systems, such as a fleet of aircraft, is provided. In addition to identifying the repairable systems that will be operational, the relative state of readiness of the repairable systems is determined such that the repairable systems that are most likely to successfully complete the designated task can be selected. Additionally, an automated method of analyzing the maintenance operations performed upon a plurality of repairable systems, such as a fleet of aircraft, is provided. In this regard, the relative states of readiness of the repairable systems are determined and maintenance resources are allocated based upon the respective measures of the relative states of readiness of the repairable systems. As such, maintenance operations scheduled for the aircraft that will have the greatest state of readiness upon completion of the maintenance operations can be prioritized."
The patent application was filed on July 15, 2009 (12/503,393). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=8,340,996&OS=8,340,996&RS=8,340,996
Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi.
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