ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,664, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to AIRBUS OPERATIONS Ltd. (Bristol, Great Britain).
"Determining a load condition of an aircraft" was invented by Junwei Zhang (Bristol, Great Britain), Daniel Farid Asadi-Aghdam (Bristol, Great Britain) and Martin Youings (Bristol, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are methods and devices for determining a load condition of an aircraft. A sensing device is mountable relative to an aircraft strut during loading operations and demountable after loading operations. A data processing device is operable to process output from the sensing device together with aircraft specific data, ...