ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,384,270, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to BETA AIR LLC (South Burlington, Vt.).

"Systems and methods for determining remaining useful energy in an aircraft" was invented by Steven J. Foland (Garland, Texas) and Herman Wiegman (Essex Junction, Vt.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for determining remaining useful energy in an electric aircraft, the system including a computing device where the computing device is configured to measure a internal state datum of a battery as a function of at least a sensor, receive the internal state datum from the at least a sensor, generate a useful energy remaining datum as a function of the inte...