US Patent Issued to AIRBUS HELICOPTERS on May 12 for "Control device and method for monitoring such a control device" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,623,770, issued on May 12, was assigned to AIRBUS HELICOPTERS (Marignane Cedex, France).

"Control device and method for monitoring such a control device" was invented by Gael Dagorn (Mittelhausbergen, France), John McElhone (Marseilles, France), Pascal Izzo (Berre L'etang, France) and Adrien Ott (Salon de Provence, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control device comprising a lever provided with a magnetic dipole and able to move, at least in rotation, relative to a support about an axis. The control device includes a measuring device configured to measure a magnetic field generated by the magnetic dipole, and a monitoring system fo...