ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,415,616, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to AIRBUS OPERATIONS Ltd. (Bristol, Great Britain).
"Monitoring system for an aircraft" was invented by George Howell (Bristol, Great Britain) and Andrew Hebborn (Bristol, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A monitoring system 300 for an aircraft 100 including a controller 301 to determine, based on one or more conditions, one or more expected operating characteristics of a steering system of the aircraft. The one or more conditions include one or more aircraft conditions indicative of an internal condition of the aircraft and/or one or more external conditions indicative of an externa...