ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,312, issued on March 3, was assigned to Wisk Aero LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Online optimization-based flight control system" was invented by Zouhair Mahboubi (Palo Alto, Calif.), Gabe Hoffmann (Mountain View, Calif.), Olivier Toupet (Stevenson Ranch, Calif.) and Herve Martins-Rivas (Mountain View, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques to control flight of an aircraft are disclosed. In various embodiments, a set of inputs associated with a requested set of forces and moments to be applied to the aircraft is received. An optimal mix of actuators and associated actuator parameters to achieve to an extent practical the req...