ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,606, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Skyryse Inc. (El Segundo, Calif.).

"Vehicle control router" was invented by Mark Groden (Marina Del Rey, Calif.), Gonzalo Javier Rey (Torrance, Calif.), Christopher Camilo Cole (Santa Monica, Calif.) and Christopher Ryan Smith (Torrance, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments relate to an aircraft control router for an aircraft. The aircraft control router may include a command processing module, sensor validation module, aircraft state estimation module, and control laws module. The command processing module may be configured to generate aircraft trajectory values based on received ai...