ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,227,311, issued on Feb. 18.

"Anti-gravity drive" was invented by Jeremy Matthew Partington (Pakenham, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus comprised of positionally directable masses attached to a binding component that includes a coupling device for payload to reduce gravitational deviation of the apparatus' trajectory by alternatingly accelerating and retracting physically bound component masses in equal and opposite directions to the extents of their bindings, initially and optimally perpendicular to the gravitational field and perpendicular to the apparatus trajectory by using in built transduction componentry locate...