ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,600,462, issued on April 14, was assigned to DASSAULT AVIATION (Paris).

"Device for piloting an aircraft and associated method" was invented by Jerome Le Borloch (Saint Cloud, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A piloting device for piloting an aircraft includes a first and a second control stick movably mounted on a support, a detection system for detecting the positions of the first and second control sticks, an elastic mechanism configured to apply a restoring force to the second control stick, first and second actuation systems configured to apply respective first and second position adjustment forces to the respective first and ...