US Patent Issued to Pipistrel d.o.o. on Dec. 30 for "Direct thrust control method for aircraft thruster" (Slovene, Slovenian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,509,217, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Pipistrel d.o.o. (Ajdovscina, Slovenia).

"Direct thrust control method for aircraft thruster" was invented by Johannes Soikkeli (Vrhnika, Slovenia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and control system for controlling the thrust of an aircraft. A thrust request is input into a controller and the controller determines throttle, governor, and RPM setpoints to meet the input thrust request. The controller can determine minimum and maximum available thrust limits of the engine and can modify any of the setpoints if any setpoint violates the available thrust limit."

The patent was filed on Aug....