ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,617,522, issued on May 5, was assigned to THE BOEING COMPANY (Arlington, Va.).

"Systems and methods of aircraft lift control" was invented by Luke Casey Hicks (Everett, Wash.), Aswin Chandar Nambi Kuppusamy Chandrasekaran (Bangalore, India) and Vinayak M Nyamagoudar (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aircraft includes actuators coupled to a lift device. The aircraft also includes a lift device control interface disposed on a flight deck of the aircraft. The lift device control interface is configured to receive a pilot input. The aircraft further includes a flight control system configured to generate a command correspondi...