ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,351,333, issued on July 8, was assigned to Joby Aero Inc. (Santa Cruz, Calif.).
"System and method for airspeed determination" was invented by Gregor Veble Mikic (Santa Cruz, Calif.), Jason Ryan (Santa Cruz, Calif.) and JoeBen Bevirt (Santa Cruz, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for determining airspeed of an aircraft that includes determining a rotor model relating a power coefficient of a propeller of the aircraft to an axial inflow velocity through the propeller as a function of a set of rotor operating parameters; determining the set of rotor operating parameters by sampling an electronic control signal associated with a...