US Patent Issued to BETA AIR on March 11 for "Hover and thrust control assembly for dual-mode aircraft" (Vermont Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,246,821, issued on March 11, 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 hover and thrust control assembly for dual-mode aircraft including a plurality of flight components mechanically coupled to an aircraft includes a support structure attached to an aircraft frame of an aircraft having a control stick coupled to the support structure. The control stick may include a length and radius and configured to be manipulated along a plurality of axes, wherein the m...