US Patent Issued to BETA AIR on June 17 for "Apparatus for guiding a transition between flight modes of an electric aircraft" (Vermont Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,661, issued on June 17, was assigned to BETA AIR LLC (South Burlington, Vt.).

"Apparatus for guiding a transition between flight modes of an electric aircraft" was invented by Thomas Henck (South Burlington, Vt.) and Richard Donnelly (South Burlington, Vt.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for guiding a transition between flight modes of an electric aircraft is illustrated. The apparatus comprises at least a sensor configured to detect a movement datum of the electric aircraft and a flight controller communicatively connected to the at least sensor, wherein the flight controller is configured to receive the movement datum f...