ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,319,435, issued on June 3, was assigned to SAFRAN ELECTRONICS & DEFENSE (Boulogne-Billancourt, France) and ST ENGINEERING AEROSPACE LTD (Singapore).

"Method for piloting an aircraft" was invented by Eric Walter (Paris), Julien Farjon (Paris), Mikael Diaz (Paris), Nicolas Cadalen (Paris), Philippe Tranie (Paris), Ng Kwee Chye (Singapore) and Hoon Ta Huang Jackson (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for piloting a pre-existing aircraft comprising the following steps: integrating an alternative piloting system (1) into the pre-existing aircraft; connecting the aircraft (200) and a ground station in which a ground pilot (207) i...