US Patent Issued to LEONARDO on May 5 for "Aircraft with moving system for moving sensing means during flight" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,617,548, issued on May 5, was assigned to LEONARDO S.P.A. (Rome).

"Aircraft with moving system for moving sensing means during flight" was invented by Antonio Guerra (Cardito, Italy) and Giuseppe Viglione (Qualiano, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aircraft is provided that has a moving system for moving, during flight, sensors of the aircraft between a rest position in which the sensors are arranged within the aircraft, and a work position in which the sensors face directly, along a sensing direction, towards outside of the aircraft and towards the ground when the aircraft is in flight. The moving system has a frame arranged inside...