ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,583, issued on March 24, was assigned to Voltitude Ltd (London).
"High-altitude pseudo satellite control" was invented by Paul Stevens (London).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A High Altitude Pseudo Satellite (HAPS) aircraft is disclosed for maintaining the span-wise shape of the wing and maintaining total bending and torsion loads. The aircraft including at least one aeroelastic span loaded fixed wing having an aspect ratio greater than 15 and wing loading less than 6 kg/m2, the wing having a plurality of spoilers distributed across the span of the wing and each spoiler being chordwise located adjacent the center of pressure of the w...