ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,448,114, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to THE BOEING COMPANY (Arlington, Va.).

"Autopilot-based aircraft recovery system" was invented by Rostyslav Svitelskyi (Shoreline, Wash.), Sherwin Chunshek Li (Edmonds, Wash.) and Brian Kenyon Rupnik (Lake Stevens, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aircraft includes an autopilot system including one or more processors. The one or more processors are configured to, in response to selection of an autopilot activation button during flight of the aircraft while the aircraft is operating in a first condition, apply first control laws to automatically control the flight of the aircraft. The one o...