US Patent Issued to THALES on May 5 for "Aerodynamic measurement probe" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,618,864, issued on May 5, was assigned to THALES (Meudon, France).

"Aerodynamic measurement probe" was invented by Natacha Szulga (Chatellerault, France), Francois Perez (Chatellerault, France), Eric Loil (Chatellerault, France), Frederic Sadrin (Vendome, France), Jocelyn Be (Vendome, France), Jean-Luc Vallee (Chatellerault, France) and Tristan Guillabeau (Chatellerault, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aerodynamic measurement probe intended to measure a local angle of attack of an air stream flowing along the fuselage of an aircraft, includes a support and a shaft that is able to rotate about a longitudinal axis with respect to th...