US Patent Issued to THALES on Sept. 1 for "Angle-of-attack sensor, in particular for an aircraft" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,722,795, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to THALES (Meudon, France).

"Angle-of-attack sensor, in particular for an aircraft" was invented by Jocelyn Be (Vendome, France) and Jean-Philippe Pineau (Vendome, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This angle-of-attack sensor, in particular for an aircraft, of the type including a sensor body (11) on which a wind vane (12) is mounted movable in rotation by a flow, is characterized in that the wind vane (12) includes at least one deflector (13, 14) extending from the leading edge of this wind vane over at least part of the intrados and/or extrados thereof."

The patent was filed on July 7, 2022...