ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,473,078, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Anduril Industries Inc. (Costa Mesa, Calif.).

"Fuel measurement for vertical take-off dual-engine aircraft" was invented by Matthew J. Goldberg (Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif.), Gregory Joseph Toland (Escondido, Calif.), Kevin Heffelfinger (Gardena, Calif.) and Lane Iverson (Irvine, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application discloses an aircraft configured for vertical take-off and landing and horizontal flight. The aircraft includes one or more processors configured to control distribution of fuel among a plurality of aircraft fuel tanks. Controlling the distribution of fue...