US Patent Issued to Volocopter on July 1 for "Method of controlling a transition aircraft and transition aircraft" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,131, issued on July 1, was assigned to Volocopter GmbH (Bruchsal, Germany).

"Method of controlling a transition aircraft and transition aircraft" was invented by Burak Yuksel (Tubingen, Germany), Ashwath Ramesh (Ottobrunn, Germany) and Lucas Duarte (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of controlling a transition aircraft having actuators and which transitions between a first take-off/landing regime and a second horizontal flight regime, including: controlling a first actuator subset in the first regime and a second actuator subset in the second regime using the flight controller, by: a) providing measurements or estimates o...