ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,377,977, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to AERONEXT INC. (Tokyo).
"Manned aircraft" was invented by Yoichi Suzuki (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A manned aircraft that enables an efficient and safe transition from hovering to leveled flight. The aircraft according to the present disclosure includes, a flight part provided with a blade part and a thrust generating part provided on the blade part, an airframe part supporting the flight part, and a boarding part that can be displaced independently from the airframe part Through such configuration, it is possible to transition safely from hovering to leveled flight."
The patent was fi...