ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,957, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Hangzhou City University Binjiang Innovation Center (Hangzhou City, China).

"Method and system for controlling position and attitude separation of tiltable rotorcraft" was invented by Fang Wang (Hangzhou City, China), Tiancai Wu (Hangzhou City, China), Jie Bai (Hangzhou City, China), Lei Wang (Hangzhou City, China), Chao Wang (Hangzhou City, China) and Chengjie Jiang (Hangzhou City, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for controlling position and attitude separation of a tiltable rotorcraft is provided, including a capability prediction module, a position control subsystem, a...