ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,236, issued on March 18, was assigned to DASSAULT AVIATION (Paris).

"System for piloting an aircraft, associated aircraft and method" was invented by Jerome Cappelle (Saint Cloud, France), Francois Pineau (Saint Cloud, France) and William Faysse (Saint Cloud, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for piloting an aircraft includes a throttle, a flight parameter sensor system, and an engine calculator controlling thrust parameters of an engine of the aircraft. The piloting system includes a flight control unit connected to the engine calculator, the sensors and the throttle. The flight control unit generates a thrust control ...