ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,859, issued on March 31, was assigned to SAFRAN (Paris) and SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES (Paris).

"Device for assisting with regulation of propellers of aeronautical turbomachinery" was invented by Henri Yesilcimen (Moissy Cramayel, France), Anthony Binder (Moissy Cramayel, France) and Panagiotis Giannakakis (Moissy Cramayel, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This control device for a propulsion system, comprising means for calculating a blade-pitch setpoint of at least one propeller of the propulsion system, the calculation means using a performance predictive model of the propeller taking account of at least one flight speed for ad...