ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,205, issued on May 20, was assigned to POLITECNICO DI TORINO (Turin, Italy).
"Method and system for estimating aerodynamic angles of a flying body" was invented by Alberto Brandl (Turin, Italy), Piero Gili (Turin, Italy) and Angelo Lerro (Turin, Italy).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer implemented method for estimating angles of attack and/or an angle of sideslip of a flying body includes the steps of: providing data or measurements representative of a time derivative of a module of a speed of the flying body with respect to an air; providing data or measurements representative of corresponding projections of coordinate accele...