ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,697,949, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to SAFRAN LANDING SYSTEMS (Velizy Villacoublay, France).
"Distributed architecture of aircraft braking system" was invented by Dominique Onfroy (Moissy-Cramayel, France), Olivier Frey (Moissy-Cramayel, France) and Brian Goyez (Moissy-Cramayel, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A braking system architecture for aircraft includes a brake including electromechanical actuators, each electromechanical actuator including a digital communication module, a power supply, two controllers, each being connected to a distinct group of one or more electromechanical actuators and including an upstream digital ...