ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,656,118, issued on June 16, was assigned to EXAIL (Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France).

"Device for measuring angular errors in the inclination of the true axis of rotation of a rotary element, and associated method" was invented by Damien Ponceau (Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France), Mehdi Bussutil (Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France), Bernard Vau (Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France) and Clement Pinzio (Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a device (100) for measuring the angular errors in the inclination of a real axis of rotation (204) of a rotary element (101), the device comprising control electronics (1...