50 patents
Utility
System and method for landing and storing vertical take-off and landing aircraft
16 Jan 24
A computing system for landing and storing vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft can be configured to receive aircraft data, passenger data, or environment data associated with a VTOL aircraft and determine a landing pad location within a landing facility based on the aircraft data, passenger data, and/or environment data.
Jon David Petersen, Ian Villa, John Conway Badalamenti
Filed: 30 Jun 22
Utility
Electric motor for aircraft propulsion
16 Jan 24
An electric motor comprises a rotor and a stator having a yoke.
Jonathan Wagner, Scott MacAfee, Hans Leuthold, Jeff Cortes, Martin van der Geest
Filed: 17 Dec 21
Utility
Aerodynamically efficient lightweight vertical take-off and landing aircraft
9 Jan 24
An aerial vehicle adapted for vertical takeoff and landing using mounted thrust producing elements.
JoeBen Bevirt, Alex Stoll
Filed: 2 May 22
Utility
Distributed weight measurement using integrated load cells
9 Jan 24
Disclosed herein are systems and methods for planning a multimodal itinerary.
Ian Andreas Villa, Philipp Haban
Filed: 22 Jun 22
Utility
Electric power system architecture and fault tolerant VTOL aircraft using same
28 Nov 23
A power system with a reliability enhancing battery architecture for electric motors adapted for use in an aerial vehicle.
JoeBen Bevirt, Alex Stoll, Martin van der Geest, Scott MacAfee, Jason Ryan
Filed: 31 May 19
Utility
Routing based on aerial vehicle characteristics
31 Oct 23
Aerial vehicles are assigned to routes within a transportation network based on a state of charge, state of power, and/or state of health for the aerial vehicle.
Adam Thomas Chase, Ian Andreas Villa, Luke Asher Wilhelm, Jon Petersen, Robert Alan McDonald, Mark Douglass Moore, Celina Mikolajczak
Filed: 5 Jun 20
Utility
Vehicle cabin thermal management system and method
24 Oct 23
The system can include an on-board thermal management subsystem.
Robert Lynn, Ernest Villanueva, Nathaniel Martin, Joeben Bevirt, Jonathan Wagner, Kevin Witt, Brian Uznanski, Austin Newman
Filed: 10 Dec 21
Utility
VTOL aircraft using fixed forward canted rotors to simulate rigid wing dynamics
10 Oct 23
A method for the flying of a vertical take-off and landing aircraft which uses fixed rotors for both VTOL and forward flight operations.
Gregor Veble Mikic, JoeBen Bevirt, Alex Stoll
Filed: 29 Jul 21
Utility
VTOL aircraft using rotors to simulate rigid wing dynamics
10 Oct 23
A vertical take-off and landing aircraft which uses fixed rotors for both VTOL and forward flight operations.
Gregor Veble Mikic, JoeBen Bevirt, Alex Stoll
Filed: 25 Aug 21
Utility
High efficiency hydrogen fueled high altitude thermodynamic fuel cell system and aircraft using same
12 Sep 23
A high efficiency hydrogen fuel system for an aircraft at high altitude which utilizes compressors to compress air to a sufficiently high pressure for the fuel cell.
Gregor Veble Mikic, JoeBen Bevirt, Robert Gulliver Lynn, Alex Stoll
Filed: 26 Oct 22
Utility
VTOL aircraft
12 Sep 23
The aircraft can include: an airframe, a tilt mechanism, a payload housing, and can optionally include an impact attenuator, a set of ground support members (e.g., struts), a set of power sources, and a set of control elements.
Gregor Veble Mikic, Alex Stoll, JoeBen Bevirt
Filed: 28 Dec 22
Utility
Vehicle navigation system
5 Sep 23
A system and method that function to generate an updated vehicle state based on a previous vehicle state and a set of sensor measurements.
Michael Burghardt, JoeBen Bevirt, Daniel Burghardt, Kevin O'Connor, Tianyu Gu, Kyle Cordes, Steven Waller
Filed: 8 Oct 20
Utility
Network system including drones
15 Aug 23
A network system provides delivery of items using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) or drones.
Matthew Sweeney, Nikhil Goel, Mark Moore, Jeffrey A. Holden
Filed: 22 Jun 21
Utility
High-efficiency drone management
15 Aug 23
Disclosed are embodiments for determining efficient utilization of drones.
Ian Andreas Villa
Filed: 17 Sep 20
Utility
Safe vertical take-off and landing aircraft payload distribution and adjustment
15 Aug 23
Vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft can provide opportunities to incorporate aerial transportation into transportation networks for cities and metropolitan areas.
Mark Moore, John Conway Badalamenti, Ian Villa, Adam Warmoth, David Josephson
Filed: 17 Dec 20
Utility
Method and system for modeling aerodynamic interactions in complex eVTOL configurations for realtime flight simulations and hardware testing
8 Aug 23
A method and system for modeling aerodynamic interactions in complex eVTOL configurations for realtime flight simulations and hardware testing which includes decomposing the aircraft into aerodynamic subcomponents, wherein the interactions between these components are handled by flow simulations of the surrounding fluid, which may be Euler flow CFD simulations.
Gregor Veble Mikic, JoeBen Bevirt, Alex Stoll, Jeremy Bain
Filed: 25 Oct 20
Utility
Vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft noise signature mitigation
11 Jul 23
Vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft can provide opportunities to incorporate aerial transportation into transportation networks for cities and metropolitan areas.
Ian Villa
Filed: 29 Mar 21
Utility
Aircraft propulsion unit
4 Jul 23
An aircraft propulsion unit includes an electric motor, at least one accessory unit used for operating the electric motor, an inverter module, the inverter module including a plurality of inverters for powering the electric motor and the at least one accessory unit, and a cooling system coupled to the electric motor and the inverter module, the cooling system comprising a coolant path for circulating a coolant through or adjacent to the electric motor and the at least one accessory unit.
Jonathan Wagner, Bradley Landseadel, Joey Milia, Scott MacAfee, Martin van der Geest
Filed: 9 Dec 22
Utility
Integrating air and ground data collection for improved drone operation
4 Jul 23
Disclosed are embodiments for employing off board sensors to augment data used by a ground based autonomous vehicle.
Ian Andreas Villa, Philipp Haban, Eric Mueller, Lucas McPhee Fischer, Matthew William Derkach, John Conway Badalamenti
Filed: 16 Sep 20
Utility
Dynamic vertiport configuration
4 Jul 23
A vertiport system dynamically updates configuration of a vertiport based on predicted usage of the vertiport during a given time frame.
Jon David Petersen, Rex J. Alexander, Stanley Stephen Swaintek, III
Filed: 14 Oct 21