US Patent Issued to AIRBUS OPERATIONS on Dec. 23 for "Heading control system" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,504,767, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to AIRBUS OPERATIONS Ltd. (Bristol, Great Britain).

"Heading control system" was invented by George Howell (Bristol, Great Britain), Andrew Hebborn (Bristol, Great Britain), James Kirrane (Bristol, Great Britain) and Stephen Daniel Pollard (Bristol, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A heading control system for an aircraft arranged to maintain a heading of an aircraft by controlling a nose wheel angle of the aircraft. The heading control system includes an interface arranged to receive a bias signal indicating a bias towards the port or the starboard of the aircraft and one or more proc...