ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,394,998, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Joby Aero Inc. (Santa Cruz, Calif.).
"Nonlinear power source capability determination" was invented by Aria Tedjarati (Menlo Park, Calif.), Christos M. Bais (Keller, Texas), Arpan Chakraborty (Santa Cruz, Calif.), Ruxiu Zhao (Campbell, Calif.), Paul T. Snow (Capitola, Calif.), Peter Wilson (Capitola, Calif.) and Blake W. English (Santa Cruz, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of determining the capability of a nonlinear aircraft power source includes accessing status values representing a current state of an energy storage system in an aircraft, accessing demand values related to ex...