ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,448,156, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Aero Velocity Inc. (Sharonville, Ohio).
"Flying vehicle systems and methods" was invented by Jay Ratajczak (Maineville, Ohio), Wei Wei (Mason, Ohio), Haonan Zhang (Mason, Ohio) and Thaddeus Bort (Loveland, Ohio).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An unmanned aerial vehicle according to certain embodiments generally includes a chassis, a power supply mounted to the chassis, a control system operable to receive power from the power supply, a plurality of arms extending outward from the chassis, a plurality of rotors, and a support structure mounted atop the chassis. Each rotor is mounted to a correspo...