US Patent Issued to Archer Aviation on Oct. 7 for "Systems and methods for ID assignment" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,174, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Archer Aviation Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for ID assignment" was invented by Stephen Michael Spiteri (Livermore, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates generally to control of systems with modular devices. In one embodiment, a device is disclosed, comprising: a plurality of electrical contacts; and at least one processor, wherein the plurality of electrical contacts are configured to be coupled to one of: a first voltage source or a second voltage source, wherein the at least one processor is configured to determine an identification (ID) value fo...