US Patent Issued to Lockheed Martin on Feb. 25 for "System and method for low speed wind estimation in VTOL aircraft" (Rhode Island, Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,234,010, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to Lockheed Martin Corp. (Bethesda, Md.).

"System and method for low speed wind estimation in VTOL aircraft" was invented by Mark Daniel Ward (Milford, Conn.) and Navid Dadkhah Tehrani (Providence, R.I.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wind estimation system for an aircraft includes a first sensor configured to sense a first position associated with an aircraft control component in a wind condition, a second sensor configured to sense a first configuration associated with a rotor system of the aircraft in the wind condition, and at least one controller in communication with at least one of the fir...