ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,422,858, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES LTD. (Tokyo).

"Aircraft position control system, aircraft, and aircraft position control method" was invented by Toru Kojima (Tokyo) and Satoshi Mori (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aircraft position control system that keeps an aircraft at target coordinates in an inertial space with respect to a target landing point that moves includes an acceleration correction processing unit that, based on acceleration of the aircraft and an attitude of the aircraft, outputs first attitude correction acceleration for correcting the acceleration of the aircraft, a comp...