US Patent Issued on Sept. 1 for "Systems and methods to optimize consumption and trip time of electrically powered aerial vehicles" (Michigan Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,722,522, issued on Sept. 1.

"Systems and methods to optimize consumption and trip time of electrically powered aerial vehicles" was invented by Nasr P Abdul-Mujeeb (Northville, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods to optimize power consumption and trip time of electrically powered aerial vehicles that are required to continuously perform trips that require more electrical power than what is supplied by an onboard energy storage device. The systems include aerial vehicles equipped with photo-voltaic (PV) panels, removable energy storage devices, light sensors, power meters, global positioning satellite (GPS) modules, p...