US Patent Issued to Archer Aviation on Nov. 25 for "Systems and methods for managing eVTOL flight in icing" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,479,584, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Archer Aviation Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for managing eVTOL flight in icing" was invented by Giovanni Droandi (San Jose, Calif.), Bharat Tulsyan (San Jose, Calif.), Scott Graves (Felton, Calif.) and Sujay Desai (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure provide systems and methods for averting, shedding, or otherwise managing ice accretions that may develop during flight of an aircraft. Example systems and methods direct oil from a lubrication and cooling path to targeted sections of ice-prone surfaces to manage ice accretion in a...