US Patent Issued to THALES on Feb. 17 for "Method for self-testing an angle-of-attack probe and method for checking the velocity of an airflow provided by a series of associated Pitot probes and angle-of-attack probe" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,553,919, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to THALES (Courbevoie, France).

"Method for self-testing an angle-of-attack probe and method for checking the velocity of an airflow provided by a series of associated Pitot probes and angle-of-attack probe" was invented by Philippe Guichard (Valence, France), Jean-Pierre Schlotterbeck (Valence, France), Frederic Sahliger (Valence, France), Jean-Claude Bourland (Valence, France) and Philippe Rondeau (Valence, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a method for self-testing an angle-of-attack probe comprising the steps of controlling an angular excitation of a rotary...