US Patent Issued to JOBY AERO on May 19 for "Vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft noise signature mitigation" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,632,803, issued on May 19, was assigned to JOBY AERO INC. (Santa Cruz, Calif.).

"Vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft noise signature mitigation" was invented by Ian Villa (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft can provide opportunities to incorporate aerial transportation into transportation networks for cities and metropolitan areas. However, VTOL aircraft may be noisy. To accommodate this, the aircraft may utilize onboard sensors, offboard sensing, network, and predictive temporal data for noise signature mitigation. By building a composite understanding of real data offboar...