ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,288,471, issued on April 29, was assigned to BETA AIR LLC (South Burlington, Vt.).

"Apparatus for determining a most limiting parameter of an electric aircraft" was invented by Herman Wiegman (South Burlington, Vt.), Thomas Henck (South Burlington, Vt.), Sarah Overfield (South Burlington, Vt.) and Richard Donnelly (South Burlington, Vt.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an aspect an apparatus for determining a most limiting parameter of an electric aircraft is presented. An apparatus includes at least a processor and a memory communicatively connected to the at least a processor. A memory contains instructions configuring at least a proce...