US Patent Issued to Kitty Hawk on July 28 for "Automated aircraft recovery system" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,693,683, issued on July 28, was assigned to Kitty Hawk Corp. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Automated aircraft recovery system" was invented by Cameron Robertson (San Mateo, Calif.), Joseph Roop (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Todd Reichert (Mountain View, Calif.) and Damon Vander Lind (Alameda, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An indication to perform a recovery action, including by deploying a first and second parachute canopy is output. Sensor data, which includes parachute canopy state information associated with the first parachute canopy and the second parachute canopy, is received from a sensor. It is determined, based at least in part on the se...