US Patent Issued to ETH ZURICH on Nov. 18 for "Controlled flight of a multicopter experiencing a failure affecting an effector" (Swiss, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,473,076, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to ETH ZURICH (Zurich).

"Controlled flight of a multicopter experiencing a failure affecting an effector" was invented by Mark W. Mueller (Berkeley, Calif.), Sergei Lupashin (Zurich), Raffaello D'Andrea (Wollerau, Switzerland) and Markus Waibel (Zurich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to a first aspect of the invention, there is provided a method for operating a multicopter experiencing a failure during flight, the multicopter comprising a body, and at least four effectors attached to the body, each operable to produce both a torque and a thrust force which can cause the multicopter to fly...