US Patent Issued to Honda Motor on Sept. 30 for "Control system and control method, and aircraft" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,428,146, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Control system and control method, and aircraft" was invented by Masashi Eto (Saitama, Japan) and Yuya Ishihara (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control system 70 includes: a VTOL rotor 20 and a cruise rotor 29 configured to generate a thrust; a power unit that has a power generation device 40a configured to generate power and supply the power to the rotors, and a battery 32 configured to store power which is supplied from the power generation device, and supply stored power to the rotors; and a control unit 91 configured to calculate a charging ...