US Patent Issued to JOBY AERO on May 5 for "Safe vertical take-off and landing aircraft payload distribution and adjustment" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,617,523, issued on May 5, was assigned to JOBY AERO INC (Santa Cruz, Calif.).

"Safe vertical take-off and landing aircraft payload distribution and adjustment" was invented by Mark Moore (San Francisco), John Conway Badalamenti (San Francisco), Ian Villa (San Francisco), Adam Warmoth (San Francisco) and David Josephson (Santa Cruz, Calif.).

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 can be sensitive to uneven weight distributions, e.g., the payload of an aircra...