ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,510,657, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to THALES (Courbevoie, France).
"Method for locating an aircraft in flight" was invented by Jean-Philippe Lebrat (Valence, France), Rodolphe Cottron (Merignac, France) and Dominique Bouard (Valence, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of locating an aircraft in flight by means of a locating device including at least one sensor and a radar, the method including a first phase of determining a position of the aircraft, referred to as the first position, by means of the at least one sensor according to a signal supplied by the at least one sensor, a second phase of determining, at the same ...