US Patent Issued to AeroVironment on June 24 for "Methods and systems for retaining lateral control of an unmanned aerial vehicle during landing with leveled inboard propellers" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,337,949, issued on June 24, was assigned to AeroVironment Inc. (Arlington, Va.).

"Methods and systems for retaining lateral control of an unmanned aerial vehicle during landing with leveled inboard propellers" was invented by Bart Dean Hibbs (Simi Valley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, devices, and methods including an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV); one or more inner wing panels of the UAV; one or more outer wing panels of the UAV; at least one inboard propeller attached to at least one engine disposed on the one or more inner wing panels; at least one tip propeller attached to at least one engine disposed on the one or m...