US Patent Issued to Airbus Operations (S.A.S.) on July 21 for "Flight control system for aircraft with autopilot" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,489, issued on July 21, was assigned to Airbus Operations (S.A.S.) (Toulouse, France).

"Flight control system for aircraft with autopilot" was invented by Jean Muller (Toulouse, France) and Sylvain Billes (Toulouse, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A flight control system for an aircraft including a first set of primary flight control computers and a second set of secondary flight control computers, where each primary flight control computer implements a first autopilot functionality. The secondary flight control computers jointly take control of control surface actuators when the primary flight control computers fail. The fligh...