US Patent Issued to Lilium eAircraft on Dec. 16 for "Aircraft inceptor apparatus and aircraft flight control system" (German, British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,497,160, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Lilium eAircraft GmbH (Wessling, Germany).

"Aircraft inceptor apparatus and aircraft flight control system" was invented by Rodrigo Rizzi Starr (Munich), Robert Austen Fox (Reading, Great Britain), Markus Scherdel (Amstetten, Germany), Alex Duarte Gomes (Germering, Germany), Vicente Martinez Martinez (Gilching, Germany), Fabio Wilson Rodrigues (Huntington Beach, Calif.) and Rogerio De Cerqueira Lario (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inceptor apparatus for an aircraft having a primary inceptor member provided in the form of a stick member having a grip portion, at which the stick member...