ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,700,321, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to JOBY AERO INC. (Santa Cruz, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for radar-based aircraft maneuver actions" was invented by Michael Burghardt (Santa Cruz, Calif.), Karsten Mueller (Karlsruhe, Germany), Andreas Stelzer (Linz, Austria), Heinz Haderer (Linz, Austria) and Simon Scott (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for radar-based aircraft maneuver actions are provided. An example computer-implemented method includes transmitting, using one or more transmitters onboard an aircraft, one or more radio signals. Reflected radio data corresponding to one or more radio signals re...