US Patent Issued to Honda Motor on Sept. 23 for "Attitude control device" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,422,856, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Attitude control device" was invented by Ryota Tsujimoto (Wako, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rotor control device a vertical rotor control unit, a horizontal rotor control unit, and an allocation command value calculation unit. The vertical rotor control unit controls each VTOL rotor based on a first allocation command value. The horizontal rotor control unit controls each cruise rotor based on a second allocation command value. The allocation command value calculation unit sets, as the first allocation command value, a difference between a command val...