ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,319,404, issued on June 3, was assigned to AIRBUS OPERATIONS Ltd. (Bristol, Great Britain).

"Aircraft control system" was invented by Fernando Izquierdo Civera (Bristol, Great Britain), Alex Robert Piddock (Bristol, Great Britain) and Mark Johnson (Bristol, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aircraft control system 100 including a control assembly 110 having control units, including a first control unit 130 for controlling actuation of the aircraft component during a first time period, using electrical resource 512 from a first electrical resource device 510, and a second control unit 140 for controlling actuation of the airc...