US Patent Issued on May 27 for "Pilotless transportation aerial-vehicle having distributed-batteries and powering method therefor" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,312,081, issued on May 27.

"Pilotless transportation aerial-vehicle having distributed-batteries and powering method therefor" was invented by Mark Holbrook Hanna (Ogden, Utah) and Douglas Morgan Hanna (Calgary, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric aerial vehicle includes a center unit, a plurality of rotor units coupled to the center unit via one or more connecting arms, one or more battery assemblies, and a plurality of electrical circuitry components. The center unit includes a compartment. Each of the rotor units includes at least a propeller, a motor for driving the propeller, and an electrical speed-controller (ESC) mo...