US Patent Issued to Kitty Hawk on May 20 for "Decoupled hand controls for aircraft with vertical takeoff and landing and forward flight capabilities" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,304,617, issued on May 20, was assigned to Kitty Hawk Corp. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Decoupled hand controls for aircraft with vertical takeoff and landing and forward flight capabilities" was invented by Alexander David Selwa (San Francisco), Todd Reichert (Mountain View, Calif.) and Mark Johnson Cutler (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A forward velocity associated with an aircraft is received. The aircraft includes a multicopter with a plurality of rotors which rotate in a substantially horizontal plane. A pitch offset is determined based at least in part on the forward velocity, where the pitch offset changes monotonical...