ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,522,373, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Airbus (S.A.S.) (Blagnac, France).
"System for aiding formation flying of aircraft" was invented by Nicolas Warton (Blagnac, France), Jordan Lee Adams (Blagnac, France) and Julio Hernanz Gonzalez (Blagnac, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for aiding formation flying of a follower aircraft with respect to a wake vortex from a leader aircraft comprises a controller and at least one accelerometer installed on the follower aircraft. The controller receives acceleration measurements performed by the at least one accelerometer and processes the measurements to obtain a value representat...