US Patent Issued to BETA AIR on Feb. 4 for "Systems and methods for hybrid autonomous control of an electric aircraft" (Vermont Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,214,862, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to BETA AIR LLC (South Burlington, Vt.).

"Systems and methods for hybrid autonomous control of an electric aircraft" was invented by Joshua E. Auerbach (Waterbury Center, Vt.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for hybrid autonomous control of an electric aircraft is provided. The system generally includes a sensor and a flight controller. The sensor is configured to detect an aircraft position datum, detect an aircraft rate datum, and transmit the aircraft position datum and the aircraft rate datum to a flight controller. The flight controller is configured to receive an aircraft pos...