US Patent Issued to Archer Aviation on April 21 for "Systems and methods for managing eVTOL flight in icing" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,312, issued on April 21, was assigned to Archer Aviation Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for managing eVTOL flight in icing" was invented by Bharat Tulsyan (San Jose, Calif.), Scott Graves (Felton, Calif.), Diederik Marius (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Stephen M. Spiteri (Livermore, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure provide systems and methods for averting, shedding, or otherwise managing ice accretions that may develop during flight of an aircraft. Example systems and methods generate heat at targeted areas of a propeller assembly by electric heating systems that utilize propeller m...