ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,288,982, issued on April 29, was assigned to Tianjin University (Tianjin, China).

"Distributed optimization control method for aircraft energy system considering loss" was invented by Zhicheng Zhang (Tianjin, China), Peng Li (Tianjin, China), Haoyu Wang (Tianjin, China), Zhiqiang Zuo (Tianjin, China), Yijing Wang (Tianjin, China), Yunhao Du (Tianjin, China) and Maoxiang Qiu (Tianjin, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A distributed optimization control method for an aircraft energy system considering loss includes the following steps: S1, based on characteristics of the actual near-space aircraft energy system and the near-space environ...