US Patent Issued to THALES on Feb. 25 for "Electronic aircraft navigation assistance system, associated method and computer program" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,236,792, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to THALES (Courbevoie, France).

"Electronic aircraft navigation assistance system, associated method and computer program" was invented by Jean-Etienne Hiolle (Toulouse, France), Eric Laurent (Toulouse, France), Laurent Laforge (Toulouse, France), David Barbey (Toulouse, France) and Erick Rakotoarisoa (Toulouse, France).

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