US Patent Issued to BETA AIR on July 22 for "Hover and thrust control assembly for dual-mode aircraft" (Vermont Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,365,455, issued on July 22, was assigned to BETA AIR LLC (South Burlington, Vt.).

"Hover and thrust control assembly for dual-mode aircraft" was invented by Cody Spiegel (Charlotte, Vt.) and Dale Williams (Winooski, Vt.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A combined hover and forward thrust control assembly for a dual-mode aircraft includes a support structure attached to an aircraft frame of an aircraft having at least a vertical thrust propulsor and at least a forward thrust propulsor a throttle lever rotatably mounted to the support structure, wherein rotating the throttle lever in a first direction increases power to at least a vertical t...