US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California on Feb. 3 for "Tilt-frame UAV for agricultural air sampling with a propeller-thrust-governing system that facilitates VTOL capability" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,206, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Tilt-frame UAV for agricultural air sampling with a propeller-thrust-governing system that facilitates VTOL capability" was invented by Ilya M. Anishchenko (Davis, Calif.) and Stephen K. Robinson (Davis, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "We describe a propeller-thrust-governing system (PTGS) for a propeller that is part of an aircraft. The PTGS includes one or more control surfaces that are located within an airflow of the propeller. The control surfaces are adjustable to reduce thrust produced by the propeller and are also adjus...