US Patent Issued to THALES on June 23 for "Aircraft pilot monitoring system for detecting an incapacitation of the pilot; associated method and computer program product" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,255, issued on June 23, was assigned to THALES (Courbevoie, France).

"Aircraft pilot monitoring system for detecting an incapacitation of the pilot; associated method and computer program product" was invented by Loic Becouarn (Merignac, France), Bastien Berthelot (Merignac, France), Clement Sarraud (Eysines, France) and Vincent Ibanez (Merignac, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The monitoring system (1) is used for detecting an incapacitation of the pilot of an aircraft, said aircraft being equipped with a piloting device (40) which can be actuated manually by the pilot. Same includes: at least one pressure sensor integrating a...