ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,269,579, issued on April 8, was assigned to Joby Aero Inc. (Santa Cruz, Calif.).
"Aircraft control system and method" was invented by Blake W. English (Santa Cruz, Calif.), James W. Denham (Santa Cruz, Calif.) and Justin D. Paines (Wiltshire, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The aircraft control system 100 includes an inceptor with a set of primary inceptor axes and a set of secondary inceptor inputs. The inceptor can optionally include a hand rest, a thumb groove, a set of finger grooves, passive soft stops, and/or any other additional elements. The aircraft control system can optionally include a flight controller, aircraft...