US Patent Issued to Airbus, Airbus Operations on March 24 for "Method and avionics computer for adapting an anchor point of a terminal segment with respect to a landing threshold point, for a non-precision approach" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,475, issued on March 24, was assigned to Airbus SAS (Blagnac, France) and Airbus Operations SAS (Toulouse, France).

"Method and avionics computer for adapting an anchor point of a terminal segment with respect to a landing threshold point, for a non-precision approach" was invented by Mohamed-Habib Essoussi (Toulouse, France), Didier Fourcade (Blagnac, France) and Olivier Falipou (Blagnac, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The avionics computer comprises a processing unit configured to compare the distance between a first position and a second position with a predetermined distance, the first position corresponding to the positi...