ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,319,442, issued on June 3, was assigned to BETA AIR LLC (South Burlington, Vt.).

"Systems and methods for monitoring sensor reliability in an electric aircraft" was invented by Nicholas Moy (South Burlington, Vt.), Collin Freiheit (South Burlington, Vt.) and Joshua E. Auerbach (South Burlington, Vt.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for monitoring sensor reliability in an electric aircraft is provided. The system includes a computing device communicatively connected to a first sensor and an electric aircraft. The first sensor is mechanically connected to the electric aircraft and is configured to detect a first flight datum of the e...