ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,701, issued on June 24, was assigned to Lilium eAircraft GmbH (Wessling, Germany).

"System and method for navigating an aircraft" was invented by Vladislav Apostolyuk (Munich), Gustav Otto (Worthsee, Germany), Mirko Reuter (Dachau, Germany) and Ettore De Lellis (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for navigating an aircraft, comprising a flight planning system configured to prepare a set of at least three different trajectories for a flight from a departure point to a destination point, a flight verification system configured to verify each trajectory of the set of trajectories, an onboard flight management system to be in...