United States Patent no. 8,032,269, issued on Oct. 4, was assigned to Sikorsky Aircraft Corp. (Stratford, Conn.). “Control Surface Failure Detection for Fly-By-Wire Aircraft” was invented by Igor Cherepinsky (Sandy Hook, Conn.), Joseph T. Driscoll (Cheshire, Conn.), William Douglas Kinkead (Wallingford, Conn.) and Leonard M. Wengler Jr. (Terryville, Conn.). According to the abstract released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: “A flight control system which detects a failure of a flight control surface and performs at least one action in response to the detected failure.” The patent was filed on Nov. 29, 2007, under Application No. 11/947,040. For further information please click here