US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on June 17 for "Weathervaning for hybrid flight aircraft" (Washington, Texas, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,783, issued on June 17, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Weathervaning for hybrid flight aircraft" was invented by Michael Szmuk (Seattle), Daniel Robert Hentzen (Seattle), Marco Antonio De Barros Ceze (Seattle), Raghu Venkataraman (Seattle), Umut Zalluhoglu (The Woodlands, Texas), Christopher J. McFarland (Seattle), Simone M. Airoldi (Melrose, Mass.), Kyle W. Reeve (Melrose, Mass.) and Raymond H. Kraft (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described are systems and methods for active weathervaning of a hybrid flight aerial vehicle, such as an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). Active weathervaning of the hybrid fli...