-- I'm told patent law is quite arcane. Even the drawings ae only allowed to be done by specialized draftsmen and the attorneys charge above the going rate for the usual business services. I once tried to get a patent on something and the attorney set all my red flags and alarms blaring at 11+. When he realized I did not have deep pockets, he suggested a *design patent* and terminated the conversation. --
I practice patent before the USPTO, more or less as a sideline. Drawing standards have relaxed considerably, except in the area of design patent. If a patent practitioner suggests a design patent without describing what it coveres (ornamental appearance) and what it does not cover (function), he is setting the mark up for a fleecing. VERY common.
As for the cited patents being essential or related to an explout that strips aircraft control from the pilot, well, ROTFL. When it comes to control of the flight surfaces, we are dealing with specific SYSTEMS, that even though they may follow the generic flow diagram in a patent, the failure and takeover modes have to be studied in the context of the aircraft, not the patent. The subect patents, at a glance, are SENSORS only. Radial position, with the possibility to do time-based derivative functions (velocity, accelleration, jerk).
The article I cited is tin-foilery. Maybe somebody has composed one that shows how flight control can be taken away from the pilot. I have yet to see such an article that expresses an accurate understanding of the hydro-electro-mechanical I/O and control loops.
I know nothing of planes. So I have a question, is it possible to put an explosive device some where in a plane that would cause the pilot to lose controls but not blow the plane up?
Yeah, I figured out the *design patent* aspect quickly. Why I put it in asterisks. What I finally did was simply hold the production process particulars quite close. Over 30 years, I have had imitators, none of whom understood how to scale the process for production quantities. None of them stayed the course because it wasn’t profitable their way. I also have a secret weapon: my husband, aka: The Tool Gnome. I remain the only source for a well-regarded item in a niche market and I even have something to sell when I finally retire....hopefully as soon as we sell this property.
I couldn’t make any sense of that Aim4Truth shite. Abel Danger is a Keeper Of Odd Knowledge. Notice I don’t qualify that. A.I.M./aim4truth.com are more ominous, IMO, because they are out to destroy legitimate sources on ideological grounds.
Knew you’d have insight.