ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,332, issued on July 15.
"Vertical takeoff and landing personal land to air vehicle" was invented by Makeeva Spann (Summerville, S.C.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A land to air vehicle with lower extendable wings and upper extendible wings, a body, a front hood fan, a rear fan and wheels. The wheels include wheel bases, exterior tires circumscribing the wheel bases, and a fan wheel assembly within each wheel base. The wheel assembly includes extendible fans, a rotor outer rim with teeth for holding a stator inner rim, a propeller shroud configured to house a variety of fan blades, at least one fan within the propeller shroud, a hing...