US Patent Issued to DASSAULT AVIATION on June 30 for "Method of assisting an aircraft in landing on a runway and associated system" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,799, issued on June 30, was assigned to DASSAULT AVIATION (Paris).

"Method of assisting an aircraft in landing on a runway and associated system" was invented by Stephane Picaut (Merignac, France) and Yann Coureaud (Merignac, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for assisting an aircraft in landing on a runway and an associated system includes determining a target exit point from the runway and a target taxi speed at which the aircraft has to take the target exit; calculating a target ground distance representative of a ground deceleration phase; and calculating the position of a target touchdown point on the basis of the t...