US Patent Issued to BETA AIR on July 29 for "Systems and methods for the remote piloting of an electric aircraft" (Vermont Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,957, issued on July 29, was assigned to BETA AIR LLC (South Burlington, Vt.).

"Systems and methods for the remote piloting of an electric aircraft" was invented by Nicholas Moy (South Burlington, Vt.), Collin Freiheit (Burlington, Vt.) and Joshua E. Auerbach (Waterbury Center, Vt.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for the remote piloting of an electric aircraft is illustrated. The system comprises a remote device located outside an electric aircraft, wherein the remote device is configured to receive a flight command input from a user and transmit the flight command input to a flight controller located on the aircraf...