US Patent Issued to Textron Innovations on July 14 for "Automatic low-speed aircraft maneuver wind compensation" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,480, issued on July 14, was assigned to Textron Innovations Inc. (Providence, R.I.).

"Automatic low-speed aircraft maneuver wind compensation" was invented by Kevin Thomas Christensen (Plano, Texas) and Sang Gyun Park (Southlake, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Automatic low-speed aircraft maneuver wind compensation is implemented by an aircraft flight control system flight control computer (FCC) configured to receive or retrieve steady wind data and retrieve groundspeed data for the aircraft. The FCC computes two-dimensional relative horizontal airspeed (i.e., horizontal relative to the surface of the earth) for the aircraft, u...