US Patent Issued to SUNLIGHT AEROSPACE on Sept. 30 for "Flight control methods for operating close formation flight" (New Jersey, California, Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,428,171, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to SUNLIGHT AEROSPACE INC. (Edison, N.J.).

"Flight control methods for operating close formation flight" was invented by Sergey V. Frolov (New Providence, N.J.), Michael Cyrus (Castle Rock, Colo.), Allan J. Bruce (Scotch Plains, N.J.) and John P. Moussouris (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of methods and apparatus for close formation flight are provided herein. In some embodiments, a method of operating aircraft for flight in close formation includes establishing a communication link between a first aircraft and a second aircraft, assigning to at least one of the fir...