US Patent Issued to SAFRAN ELECTRONICS & DEFENSE on Nov. 18 for "System for monitoring a movable surface of an aircraft" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,473,098, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to SAFRAN ELECTRONICS & DEFENSE (Paris).

"System for monitoring a movable surface of an aircraft" was invented by Paul Moreau (Moissy-Cramayel, France) and Julien Hautecoeur (Moissy-Cramayel, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A monitoring system includes a movable surface of an aircraft, an actuation system for the movable surface of an aircraft including actuators, a first position sensor adapted to measure a position of a first actuator of the actuators and a second position sensor adapted to measure a position of a second actuator of the actuators. The monitoring system also includes a firs...