US Patent Issued to Airbus on June 24 for "Method for managing the longitudinal position of a follower aircraft with respect to a leader aircraft" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,702, issued on June 24, was assigned to Airbus SAS (Blagnac, France).

"Method for managing the longitudinal position of a follower aircraft with respect to a leader aircraft" was invented by Jordan Lee Adams (Toulouse, France), Guillaume Ta (Toulouse, France) and Clement Frot (Toulouse, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for managing a longitudinal position a follower aircraft following a leader aircraft by: obtaining a position and speed of the leader aircraft and a real longitudinal position and speed of the follower aircraft; determining a target longitudinal position of the follower aircraft with respect to the longit...