Patents by Inventor Lucas C. Whitaker

Lucas C. Whitaker has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Tether orientation sensor for controlling the position of a tethered aircraft
    Patent number: 10365663
    Abstract: An unmanned aerial vehicle has a substrate. A tether sensor is mounted on the substrate. The tether sensor determines an orientation of the tether relative to the substrate. A micro controller, receiving the measured orientation from the tether sensor, determines an orientation of the tether relative to the substrate, and as a function of the orientation, determines a corrective value and outputs the corrective value to the unmanned aerial vehicle as at least one of a roll output and a pitch output control signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: Hoverfly Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Alfred D. Ducharme, Daniel Burroughs, Lucas C. Whitaker
  • TETHER ORIENTATION SENSOR FOR CONTROLLING THE POSITION OF A TETHERED AIRCRAFT
    Publication number: 20170147007
    Abstract: An unmanned aerial vehicle has a substrate. A tether sensor is mounted on the substrate. The tether sensor determines an orientation of the tether relative to the substrate. A micro controller, receiving the measured orientation from the tether sensor, determines an orientation of the tether relative to the substrate, and as a function of the orientation, determines a corrective value and outputs the corrective value to the unmanned aerial vehicle as at least one of a roll output and a pitch output control signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2016
    Publication date: May 25, 2017
    Inventors: Alfred D. Ducharme, Daniel Burroughs, Lucas C. Whitaker