ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,473,075, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Korea Aerospace Research Institute (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Aircraft control input device and command input method using the same" was invented by Youngshin Kang (Daejeon, South Korea), Bumjin Park (Daejeon, South Korea), Seongwook Choi (Daejeon, South Korea), Yushin Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Jongmin Bae (Sejong-si, South Korea), Joowon Choi (Daejeon, South Korea) and Sungho Chang (Sejong-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a control input device applicable to an eVTOL aircraft, which is an electric-powered vertical take-off and landing aircraft, and ...