US Patent Issued to The Boeing on June 10 for "Systems and methods for overriding autonomous control of a device" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,325,509, issued on June 10, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Systems and methods for overriding autonomous control of a device" was invented by Christopher E. Plass (Federal Way, Wash.) and Kevin S. Callahan (Newcastle, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Within examples, a system is described that includes a control lever for controlling operation of a device, a first actuator coupled to the control lever via a rod, and a resettable frangible link coupling a second actuator to the control lever via the rod. The resettable frangible link enables separation of coupling of the second actuator from the control lever based ...