US Patent Issued to BETA AIR on Aug. 18 for "Systems and methods for in-flight operational assessment" (Rhode Island Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,709,167, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to BETA AIR LLC (South Burlington, Vt.).

"Systems and methods for in-flight operational assessment" was invented by Herman Lucas Norbert Wiegman (Wakefield, R.I.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of in-flight operational assessment for an electric aircraft comprising detecting by a sensor an electrical parameter of an energy source. The method further includes receiving by a controller the electrical parameter from the sensor and determining a power-production capability of the energy source, using the electrical parameter. The method further includes calculating, by the controller, a projec...