US Patent Issued to Joby Aero on Sept. 1 for "Method and system for safely landing a battery powered electric VTOL aircraft in a low charge condition" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,725,843, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Joby Aero Inc. (Santa Cruz, Calif.).

"Method and system for safely landing a battery powered electric VTOL aircraft in a low charge condition" was invented by Gregor Veble Mikic (Santa Cruz, Calif.), Joeben Bevirt (Santa Cruz, Calif.), Alex Stoll (Santa Cruz, Calif.) and Brian Matthew Uznanski (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for use with a VTOL aircraft with batteries in a state of deep discharge which prepares the aircraft for a safe vertical landing despite the deep discharge initial condition. The method may include preparing the batteries for an intense bur...