US Patent Issued to AeroVironment on Sept. 30 for "Systems and methods for distributed control computing for a high altitude long endurance aircraft" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,958, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to AeroVironment Inc. (Arlington, Va.).

"Systems and methods for distributed control computing for a high altitude long endurance aircraft" was invented by Derek Lisoski (Simi Valley, Calif.) and William Stuart Sechrist (Simi Valley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, devices, and methods including a first flight control computer (FCC) of two or more FCCs; a second FCC of the two or more FCCs; at least one selector in communication with the first FCC; and at least one watchdog window in communication with the at least one selector, where the at least one watchdog window monitors a pe...