ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,304,349, issued on May 20, was assigned to BETA Air LLC (South Burlington, Vt.).

"Systems and methods for battery management for electric aircraft batteries" was invented by Braedon Lohe (Essex Junction, Vt.), Cullen Jemison (Winooski, Vt.), Andrew Giroux (Georgia, Vt.) and Tom Hughes (South Burlington, Vt.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for battery management for electric aircraft batteries includes an energy storage system configured to provide energy to the electric aircraft via a power supply connection, the energy storage system including: a battery pack, a sensor configured to detect a condition parameter of the battery pa...