US Patent Issued to Kaney Aerospace on Sept. 1 for "Airplane fly-by-wire control system and method" (Arizona, Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,722,776, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Kaney Aerospace LLC (Rockford, Ill.).

"Airplane fly-by-wire control system and method" was invented by Dean Wilkens (Scottsdale, Ariz.) and Waleed M. Said (Rockford, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Fly-by-wire (FBW) control systems and methods for an aircraft are disclosed herein. In one example embodiment, the present disclosure relates to a FBW control system for an aircraft including a plurality of inceptors, a plurality of actuators, a plurality of linkages, at least one controller area network (CAN) bus, and at least one flight control computer (FCC) coupled to the plurality of actuato...