ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,466,552, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to BETA AIR LLC (South Burlington, Vt.).
"Pilot-controlled position guidance for VTOL aircraft" was invented by Collin Freiheit (Burlington, Vt.), David L. Churchill (Winooski, Vt.), Hamid-Reza Ossareh (South Burlington, Vt.) and Nicholas Moy (Burlington, Vt.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for pilot-controlled position guidance configured for use in a vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft, the system including a VTOL aircraft. The system including a graphical user interface (GUI) coupled to the VTOL aircraft, where the GUI is configured to receive an objective from a user as a fun...