US Patent Issued to JOBY AERO on Aug. 25 for "System and method for landing and storing vertical take-off and landing aircraft" (California, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,333, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to JOBY AERO INC. (Santa Cruz, Calif.).

"System and method for landing and storing vertical take-off and landing aircraft" was invented by John Conway Badalamenti (San Francisco), Jon David Petersen (Austin, Texas) and Ian Villa (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing system for landing and storing vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft can be configured to receive aircraft data, passenger data, or environment data associated with a VTOL aircraft and determine a landing pad location within a landing facility based on the aircraft data, passenger data, and/or environment da...