US Patent Issued to Joby Aero on July 29 for "Vehicle autonomy architecture" (California, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,978, issued on July 29, was assigned to Joby Aero Inc. (Santa Cruz, Calif.).

"Vehicle autonomy architecture" was invented by Michael Alexei Burghardt (Santa Cruz, Calif.), Simon Scott (San Francisco), Michael Laurenzi (Santa Cruz, Calif.) and Rurik Primiani (Miami).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for controlling aerial vehicles are provided. An aerial vehicle includes a single circuit board with a number of processor devices and a memory including instructions to perform autonomy operations. The autonomy operations include obtaining GNSS data from GNSS assemblies electrically connected to the processor devices, APNT...