US Patent Issued to Honda Motor on July 14 for "Attitude control device" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,533, issued on July 14, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Attitude control device" was invented by Ryota Tsujimoto (Wako, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rotor control device for performing attitude control of a fuselage of an aircraft includes a VTOL rotor control unit for controlling each rotor based on a roll moment command value, a pitch moment command value, and a yaw moment command value. When the magnitude of the roll moment command value or the magnitude of the pitch moment command value is equal to or greater than a threshold, the VTOL rotor control unit controls each rotor without using the yaw moment co...