ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,270,826, issued on April 8, was assigned to ROHM Co. LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).
"Flight control apparatus" was invented by Hiroshi Yaguma (Kyoto, Japan) and Shunsuke Akasaka (Kyoto, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a flight control apparatus including a pair of sensors that are spaced apart in a vertical direction on a surface of a flying object which uses motive power of a power source powered by a battery to fly and that detect a physical quantity corresponding to a state of an airflow, and a control unit that controls a flight state of the flying object on the basis of a difference between outputs of the pair of sensors."
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