US Patent Issued to Textron Innovations on July 1 for "Method of adjusting directional movement ability in a multi-rotor aircraft" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,390, issued on July 1, was assigned to Textron Innovations Inc. (Providence, R.I.).

"Method of adjusting directional movement ability in a multi-rotor aircraft" was invented by Sung K. Kim (Bedford, Texas), Russell C. Peters (Fort Worth, Texas) and Manish J. Mistry (Dallas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of adjusting a directional movement ability in an aircraft having two or more rotors includes receiving a desired thrust demand for each rotor of the two or more rotors, comparing the desired thrust demands to determine a maximum thrust demand, determining whether the maximum thrust demand exceeds a maximum thrust limit of the...