ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,649,586, issued on June 9, was assigned to Kopter Group AG (Mollis, Switzerland).

"Air data indicating arrangement and method for calibrating the same" was invented by Domenico Vinci (Reichenburg, Switzerland) and Luca Casciola (Wetzikon, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An air data indicating and calibrating arrangement and method for a vertical take-off and landing aircraft, in particular a helicopter, for providing information on an air speed of the vertical take-off and landing aircraft and for providing information on an altitude of the vertical take-off and landing aircraft are described. The vertical take-off and landing ...