ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,428,136, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Airbus Operations SAS (Toulouse, France).

"Device and method for generating flutter on at least a part of an aircraft" was invented by Sebastien Blanc (Blagnac, France) and Laura Montironi (Blagnac, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device comprising a plurality of sensors arranged on an aircraft and configured to measure input data, an avionics computer configured to determine, based on the input data, at least one control command for at least one control surface of the aircraft by using a control law comprising at least one gain value, the control law being configured to obtain a cont...