US Patent Issued to Volkswagen on June 17 for "Method for operating a flying object, and flying object" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,511, issued on June 17, was assigned to Volkswagen AG (Wolfsburg, Germany).

"Method for operating a flying object, and flying object" was invented by Dimitri Schneider (Hannover, Germany), Hendrik Schroder (Sickte, Germany) and Christoph Kappner (Wolfsburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Technologies and techniques for operating a flying object, such as a battery-operated flying object that includes at least one battery system and at least one electric drive unit. During an emergency, a first power limit of the battery system can be increased to a second power limit of the battery system such that a safe emergency landing of ...