US Patent Issued to AIRBUS HELICOPTERS, AIRBUS HELICOPTERS DEUTSCHLAND on July 7 for "Method for setting the mass of a load to be transported by an aircraft" (French, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,674,701, issued on July 7, was assigned to AIRBUS HELICOPTERS (Marignane Cedex, France) and AIRBUS HELICOPTERS DEUTSCHLAND GMBH (Donauworth, Germany).

"Method for setting the mass of a load to be transported by an aircraft" was invented by Thomas Razafimahefa (Saint Chamas, France), Damien Gavios (Allauch, France), Pierre Bouchard (Gignac-la-Nerthe, France) and Carl Ockier (Augsburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for setting, in an aircraft, a calculation mass relative to a load to be transported by a hooking system of the aircraft. The method comprises: detecting whether a current state of the aircraft is a flight state...