MUMBAI, India, Aug. 17 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202617084062 A) filed by Archer Aviation Inc. on July 08, 2026, for Systems And Methods For Battery Management And Control Of An Electric Vehicle.

Inventors include Depenbusch, Nathan Thomas; Carleial, Pedro Roberto Paterson; Frihauf, Paul; Allam, Anirudh; Bower, Geoffrey Christien; Williamson, Benjamin James; Greenwood, Jeffery Scott; Gerzanics, Michael; Xue, Nansi; Bi, Yalan; Furman, Scott Forrest; and Cao, Weiyu.

The application for the patent was published on August 14, 2026, under issue no. 33/2026.

Abstract: This disclosure relates to flight control of electric aircraft and other vehicles. A computer-implemented method for estimating available range of an aircraft in flight is disclosed, comprising: receiving electrical information of one or more batteries measured using a first sensor; estimating aircraft-level energy based on electrical information of the one or more batteries; receiving one or more of an altitude of the aircraft or a current airspeed of the aircraft measured using a second sensor; estimating a steady-state force based on the one or more of the altitude of the aircraft or the current airspeed of the aircraft; estimating one or more of a vertical landing range or a horizontal landing range based on the one or more of the estimated aircraft-level energy or the estimated steady-state force; and displaying the one or more of the estimated vertical landing range or the estimated horizontal landing range on a display.

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