US 12,243,358 B2
Methods, apparatuses, and storage media to track engine components
Luis Eduardo Riestra Pagola, Querétaro (MX); and Stephen Davis, Eastleight (GB)
Assigned to GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY, Evendale, OH (US)
Filed by GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY, Schenectady, NY (US)
Filed on Oct. 18, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/504,193.
Prior Publication US 2023/0118411 A1, Apr. 20, 2023
Int. Cl. G07C 5/00 (2006.01); G07C 5/08 (2006.01); H04W 4/80 (2018.01)
CPC G07C 5/008 (2013.01) [G07C 5/006 (2013.01); G07C 5/0816 (2013.01); H04W 4/80 (2018.02)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An apparatus comprising:
memory;
instructions in the apparatus; and
processor circuitry to execute the instructions to:
obtain an electronic notification that an engine is undergoing maintenance or in operation via a network communication;
in response to the electronic notification that the engine is undergoing maintenance or in operation, access an entry in a database that corresponds to the engine, the engine including a physical module;
update historical data corresponding to the physical module based on the electronic notification; and
determine whether the physical module of the engine has been replaced by extracting data from a data packet obtained via a network communication; and
based on the physical module of the engine having not been replaced, access the entry in the database to replace a first tag identifier of the physical module stored in the entry with a second tag identifier of the physical module and maintain the historical data for the physical module in the entry, the first tag identifier corresponding to a first wireless tag that was attached to the physical module and the second tag identifier corresponding to a second wireless tag that was added to the physical module after the first wireless tag was removed from the physical module.