US Patent Issued to Kitty Hawk on May 20 for "Thrust allocation using optimization in a distributed flight control system" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,304,647, issued on May 20, was assigned to Kitty Hawk Corp. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Thrust allocation using optimization in a distributed flight control system" was invented by Tim Allan Wheeler (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Thrust values for motors in an aircraft are generated where each flight controller in a plurality of flight controllers generates a thrust value for each motor in a plurality of motors using an optimization problem with a single solution. Each flight controller in the plurality of flight controllers passes one of the generated thrust values to a corresponding motor in the plurality of motors, wh...