US Patent Issued to MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES on June 23 for "Automatic takeoff/landing system for vertical takeoff/landing aircraft, vertical takeoff/landing aircraft, and control method for takeoff/landing of vertical takeoff/landing aircraft" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,806, issued on June 23, was assigned to MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES LTD. (Tokyo).

"Automatic takeoff/landing system for vertical takeoff/landing aircraft, vertical takeoff/landing aircraft, and control method for takeoff/landing of vertical takeoff/landing aircraft" was invented by Toru Kojima (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This automatic takeoff/landing system for a vertical takeoff/landing aircraft comprises: a relative wind information acquisition unit that acquires the direction of relative wind at a moving object; and a control unit that executes takeoff/landing control to cause the vertical takeoff/landing aircraft to ta...