US Patent Issued to Archer Aviation on March 17 for "Systems and methods for electric damping of aircraft flight control surfaces and propellers" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,510, issued on March 17, was assigned to Archer Aviation Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for electric damping of aircraft flight control surfaces and propellers" was invented by Guy Bernard (Kirkland, Canada), Geoffrey Bower (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Diederik Marius (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Kurt Wagner (Los Gatos, Calif.) and Stephen Spiteri (Livermore, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aircraft system for damping movement of a structural flight element. The aircraft system including a moveable aircraft structure, a power source, a controller, a resistor, and a first transistor connected in series to the resistor. When t...