ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,234,007, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to Zunum Aero Inc. (Redmond, Wash.).

"System and methods for designing and building regional hybrid-to-electric systems and methods for designing and optimizing regional hybrid-to-electric aircraft" was invented by Jimmy Lu (N. Markham, Canada), Mathew Isler (Sammamish, Wash.), Matt Knapp (Redmond, Wash.), Kevin Holcomb (Sultan, Wash.), Petek Saracoglu (Langley, Wash.), Lauren Burns (Templestowe, Australia) and Herb West (Bothell, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This document details a series of inventions relating to the design and optimization of hybrid-to-electric aircraft. In particular, ...