US Patent Issued to Texas Transland on Jan. 27 for "Advanced control system for replenishing an aerial application aircraft using hybrid actuation" (Oklahoma Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,199, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Texas Transland LLC (Wichita Falls, Texas).

"Advanced control system for replenishing an aerial application aircraft using hybrid actuation" was invented by Calvin L. Kroes (Loveland, Okla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a system for an aerial application aircraft includes a hopper and advanced control system. The hopper includes a hopper cover to retain the application materials within the hopper, an electric actuator coupled to the hopper cover that is operable to open and close the hopper cover, an auger operable to rotate and disperse the application materials within the ...