US Patent Issued to Electra Aero on Aug. 12 for "System and method for controlling flight path of a blown lift aircraft" (American, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,384,550, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Electra Aero Inc. (Manassas, Va.).

"System and method for controlling flight path of a blown lift aircraft" was invented by Oliver Masefield (Stans, Switzerland), Christopher B. Courtin (Somerville, Mass.) and Robert John Hansman Jr. (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In accordance with some embodiments, a system for controlling an aircraft is provided. The system can include a computing device, wherein the computing device includes at least one processor configured to control a flight path angle of the aircraft, and wherein the aircraft is a blown lift aircraft. The system can al...