ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,466,261, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Lilium eAircraft GmbH (Wessling, Germany).
"Crash handling system for an aircraft" was invented by Thalles Hermes Reis Gomes (Wessling, Germany), Julian Carl (Wessling, Germany) and Pedro Manuel De La Camara Cruz (Wessling, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a crash handling system for an aircraft, comprising an altitude surveillance system adapted to receive altitude data from an altitude sensor and issue an altitude warning signal when a predetermined altitude condition is fulfilled, a crash detection unit, comprising an acceleration detector and issues a crash detection sign...