ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,658, issued on June 17, was assigned to Joby Aero Inc. (Santa Cruz, Calif.).
"Unmanned aircraft control using engine torque control system" was invented by Douglas Famularo (San Francisco), Edward Lim (Pacifica, Calif.) and Joshua Rosenkranz (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aircraft control system includes a longitudinal control module, an engine torque control module, and an actuator control system. The longitudinal control module is configured to generate a desired torque value and a desired elevator position value for an aircraft based on a desired airspeed value, a desired altitude value, an actual airspeed value,...