ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,222,717, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to Kitty Hawk Corp. (Palo Alto, Calif.).
"Automated aircraft recovery system" was invented by Cameron Robertson (San Mateo, Calif.), Joseph Roop (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Todd Reichert (Mountain View, Calif.) and Damon Vander Lind (Alameda, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Sensor data is received from a sensor where the sensor data includes aircraft state information including an aircraft pitch angle and recovery device state information including which parachute canopies are operational and one or more properties associated with the operational parachute canopies. The parachute canopies are coupl...