US Patent 11579163 Differential pressure angle of attack sensor

An angle of attack (AOA) sensor system is disclosed. The system comprises a plurality of pitot tube ports in a housing. The pitot tube ports include a set of positive angle pitot ports, a set of negative angle pitot ports, and a central pitot port. The central pitot port is aligned with a central chord line of a wing of the aircraft. A plurality of pitot tubes communicate with the plurality of pitot tube ports (at a first end), and with a plurality of pressure sensors (at a second end). A microcontroller is configured to generate a respective current AOA value for each pressure sensor based on a respective ram pressure measurement generated by each of the pressure sensors, and generate an AOA measurement of the aircraft by comparing each respective current AOA value to respective calibrated AOA values stored in a memory.