US Patent Issued to JOBY AERO on Aug. 12 for "Unmanned aircraft control using ground control station" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,387,607, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to JOBY AERO INC. (Santa Cruz, Calif.).

"Unmanned aircraft control using ground control station" was invented by Travis Paul (Petaluma, Calif.), Marc Francois Xavier Piette (Orinda, Calif.), Maxime Marie Christophe Gariel (San Francisco), Anna Dietrich (Petaluma, Calif.), Evan Michael Wilson (San Mateo, Calif.), Craig Milliard (San Francisco), Ryan Olson (San Francisco), Phillip Jones (Oakland, Calif.) and Adam Shelly (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aircraft includes a flight plan and contingency data including a plurality of contingency landing sites. An aircraft communication sy...