ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,929, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Chicago).
"Landing a vertical landing vehicle" was invented by Rolf Rysdyk (Hood River, Ore.), Joseph Jackson (White Salmon, Wash.) and Jeffrey Decker (Snowden, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, apparatus, system, and computer program product for controlling landing of a vertical landing vehicle. In one illustrative example, a method controls landing of a vertical landing vehicle. A landing profile for landing the vertical landing vehicle is determined by the computer system using a third derivative of a position equation, an initial position, an initial speed, a ...