ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,232, issued on March 18, was assigned to BAE Systems PLC (London).

"Control system and method" was invented by Justin Mark Dee (Rochester, Great Britain) and Peter Stuart Maley (Rochester, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control system for assisting a pilot to control an aircraft operating under control of an active inceptor, the control system comprising: a receiver for receiving pilot-inputs on an active inceptor, an instruction generator to generate an instruction, the instruction based on an external signal associated with the geographical location of the aircraft; a tactile cue generator to generates a tactile cu...