ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,816, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to AERONEXT INC. (Tokyo).
"Flying object with backward-tilting delivery payload mechanism" was invented by Yoichi Suzuki (Tokyo), Narumi Watanabe (Tokyo) and Takuya Hori (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention is a flying object equipped with a loading part holding a delivery payload, and the loading part or the delivery payload is attached to an airframe so that the loading part or the delivery payload is tilted backward in the forward and backward direction in a landing state or hovering state. The loading part or delivery payload is attached to the airframe so that the loading part or...