Gulfstream Aerospace was granted a patent for aircraft recovery autopilot.

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  "company": {
    "name": "Gulfstream",
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    "detail": "In September 2026 Gulfstream Aerospace patented flight-envelope protection for business aircraft, helping recover the aircraft when operating conditions approach unsafe limits.",
    "summary": "Gulfstream Aerospace was granted a patent for aircraft recovery autopilot.",
    "event_at": "2026-09-08",
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        "name": "Kevin Prosser",
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    "source_url": "https://patents.google.com/patent/US12731498",
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    "patent_title": "Aircraft flight envelope protection and recovery autopilot",
    "patent_number": "US12731498",
    "uspto_assignee": "GULFSTREAM AEROSPACE CORPORATION",
    "patent_abstract": "Systems and vehicle are provided. A flight envelope protection system includes: a potential path generation module configured to generate a plurality of possible recovery trajectories for the aircraft; a trajectory selection module configured to select a possible recovery trajectory; a trajectory flight condition module configured to estimate a flight condition of the aircraft along the potential aircraft path of the selected possible recovery trajectory; a limit comparison module configured to determine whether the modeled flight condition violates an aircraft limit; and a recovery autopilot module configured to guide the aircraft along one of the plurality of possible recovery trajectories.",
    "precision_class": "structural",
    "invention_explanation": "An autopilot that proposes several safe recovery paths, checks the aircraft’s expected conditions on each, and chooses a suitable route automatically.",
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