ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,442,831, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to AIRBUS (SAS) (Blagnac, France).
"Pitot tube sensing apparatus" was invented by Anmol Dhandhania (Bristol, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pitot tube sensing apparatus and method are disclosed for determining the presence or absence of a foreign object within the pitot tube sensing apparatus, and including a pitot tube having a channel, a pressure sensor coupled to the channel, a capacitor and a system. The capacitor includes two electrodes on opposing sides of the channel. The system measures a parameter indicative of a capacitance between the two electrodes and determines the pr...