Since the beginning of August, the Ambitious Air Mobility Group (AAMG), based in the Netherlands and with connections to Spain, Dubai and Japan, has been publicly promoting its desire to take over and revive the Bavarian company Lilium. However, this attempt has now apparently failed: with the sale of Lilium’s intellectual property in the form of over 300 patents to US competitor Archer, AAMG now has no chance of acquiring what are arguably Lilium’s most valuable assets.
The Lilium patent portfolio includes innovations in the areas of high-voltage systems, battery management systems, aircraft design, flight control systems, electric propulsion systems, propeller technology and shrouded propeller technology for eVTOL aircraft….