ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,606, issued on March 24, was assigned to Archer Aviation Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for aircraft energy optimization" was invented by Geoffrey Christien Bower (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Nathan Thomas Depenbusch (Mountain View, Calif.) and Nansi Xue (Redondo Beach, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed embodiments generally relate to systems and methods for flight control of aircrafts. In some embodiments, a flight control system is configured to determine desired commands for the electric aircraft, determine at least one reference command for an effector based on the desired commands and one or more aircraft c...