US Patent Issued to Kitty Hawk on Sept. 15 for "Decoupled hand controls for aircraft with vertical takeoff and landing and forward flight capabilities" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,735,172, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Kitty Hawk Corp. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Decoupled hand controls for aircraft with vertical takeoff and landing and forward flight capabilities" was invented by Alexander David Selwa (San Francisco), Todd Reichert (Mountain View, Calif.) and Mark Johnson Cutler (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A forward velocity and a roll angle associated with an aircraft is received, where the aircraft includes a multicopter with a plurality of rotors which rotate in a substantially horizontal plane. A yaw rate offset is determined based at least in part on the forward velocity and the roll a...