US Patent Issued to LEONARDO on May 13 for "Device for controlling a cursor of a graphical user interface of a flight unit" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,212, issued on May 13, was assigned to LEONARDO S.P.A. (Rome).

"Device for controlling a cursor of a graphical user interface of a flight unit" was invented by Francesco Ricci (Pomezia, Italy), Giovanni Barile (Pomezia, Italy) and Massimo Fabbrini (Pomezia, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Device for controlling a cursor of a graphical user interface of a flight unit, comprising a base structure; a graspable body shaped to be grasped by a hand of an operator and movable with respect to the base structure by the manual force provided by the operator by means of his/her hand; a force sensor coupled to the graspable body and designe...