ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,600, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to GS Yuasa International Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Method of controlling flying object, flying object, and computer program" was invented by Hiromasa Muramatsu (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of controlling a flying object 1 including a generator 5, which includes solar cells, and an energy storage apparatus 7 is configured such in a case where, during flying of the flying object 1, a voltage of an energy storage device 6 in the energy storage apparatus 7 reaches a lower limit voltage of a voltage range in which charge and discharge of electricity can be reversibly repeated, the f...