US Patent Issued to Archer Aviation on May 6 for "Systems and methods for control allocation for electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,291,343, issued on May 6, was assigned to Archer Aviation Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for control allocation for electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft" was invented by Geoffrey C. Bower (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Nansi Xue (Redondo Beach, Calif.), Alan Chen (San Carlos, Calif.), Benjamin Goldman (Santa Cruz, Calif.) and Nathan Depenbusch (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of controlling an electric aircraft that has a plurality of actuators that includes a plurality of electric propulsion units includes: receiving force and moment commands for the electric aircraft; determining control co...