ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,365,457, issued on July 22, was assigned to Anduril Industries Inc. (Costa Mesa, Calif.).
"Fuel venting for vertical take-off dual-engine aircraft" was invented by Matthew J. Goldberg (Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif.), Gregory Joseph Toland (Escondido, Calif.), Kevin Heffelfinger (Gardena, Calif.) and Lane Iverson (Irvine, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application discloses an aircraft configured for vertical take-off and landing and horizontal flight. The aircraft includes a valve configured to control the permitting or restricting of a release of gas from different regions of a fuel tank when the aircraft is in a ver...