US Patent Issued to JOBY AERO on June 30 for "Robust control of oblique flying wing aircraft" (Colorado, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,668,356, issued on June 30, was assigned to JOBY AERO INC. (Santa Cruz, Calif.).

"Robust control of oblique flying wing aircraft" was invented by Matt Epperson (Boulder, Colo.), Thomas Victor Greenhill (Santa Cruz, Calif.) and Charles Graham Blair Horn (Santa Cruz, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robust control method for an oblique flying wing aircraft includes computing an angular velocity error between a reference angular velocity and an actual angular velocity and computing a moment command with an angular velocity controller based at least in part on the angular velocity error. The angular velocity controller decouples two o...