US Patent Issued to JOBY AERO on July 14 for "Payload management for vertical take-off and landing aircraft utilizing ground transportation" (California, Tennessee, South Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,298, issued on July 14, was assigned to JOBY AERO INC. (Santa Cruz, Calif.).

"Payload management for vertical take-off and landing aircraft utilizing ground transportation" was invented by Ian Andreas Villa (San Francisco), John Conway Badalamenti (Six Mile, S.C.), Mark Moore (Crossville, Tenn.) and Adam Warmoth (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application describes a payload management system that routes a payload item associated with an individual from an origin to a destination. In some examples, the payload item is routed from the origin to the destination separate from a travel itinerary associated with th...