US Patent Issued to Airbus Operations on Nov. 4 for "Device and system for estimating the position and speed of an aircraft during an approach phase allowing automatic landing" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,698, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Airbus Operations SAS (Toulouse, France).

"Device and system for estimating the position and speed of an aircraft during an approach phase allowing automatic landing" was invented by Mathieu Brunot (Toulouse, France), Cedric Brunet (Toulouse, France) and Damien Gonzalez-Conde (Toulouse, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An estimation device for estimating, during an aircraft approach procedure for landing on a runway following a predefined runway approach, a deviation relative to a reference guidance axis corresponding to the predefined runway approach, and a speed of an aircraft relative to ...