US Patent Issued to Joby Aero on July 8 for "Fault-tolerant VTOL aircraft with redundant control surfaces and actuators" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,351,324, issued on July 8, was assigned to Joby Aero Inc. (Santa Cruz, Calif.).

"Fault-tolerant VTOL aircraft with redundant control surfaces and actuators" was invented by JoeBen Bevirt (Santa Cruz, Calif.), Alex Stoll (Santa Cruz, Calif.), Martin van der Geest (Santa Cruz, Calif.), Scott MacAfee (Santa Cruz, Calif.) and Jason Ryan (Santa Cruz, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vertical takeoff and landing aircraft includes a starboard wing, a port wing, first and second tilt rotors coupled to the port and starboard wings respectively, and first and second batteries. A pair of control surfaces are arranged on a first side of the mi...