US Patent Issued to BETA AIR on March 18 for "Methods and systems for fixed wing flight to vertical wing flight for landing an aircraft" (Vermont Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,385, issued on March 18, was assigned to BETA AIR LLC (South Burlington, Vt.).

"Methods and systems for fixed wing flight to vertical wing flight for landing an aircraft" was invented by Herman Wiegman (Essex Junction, Vt.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for landing an electric aircraft is provided. The system includes a controller, wherein the controller is communicatively connected to the sensor, wherein the controller is configured to, receive a plurality of measured flight data, determine a descent confirmation as a function of the plurality of measured flight data, generate a descent instruction set as a func...