ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,269,580, issued on April 8, was assigned to ARCHER AVIATION INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for aircraft load alleviation" was invented by Jeffrey Mark Bosworth (Argyle, Texas), Nathan Paul Pringle (Greensboro, N.C.) and Nathan Thomas Depenbusch (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to systems and methods for flight control of aircrafts driven by electric propulsion systems and in other types of vehicles. In some embodiments, a flight control system of an aircraft is disclosed, configured to receive one or more signals to control movement of the aircraft, de...