US Patent Issued to Archer Aviation on Oct. 7 for "Vertical take-off and landing aircraft with AFT rotor tilting" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,830, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Archer Aviation Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Vertical take-off and landing aircraft with AFT rotor tilting" was invented by Geoffrey C. Bower (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vertical take-off and landing aircraft may include a fuselage; at least one wing connected to the fuselage; a first plurality of proprotors mounted to the at least one wing, positioned at least partially forward of a leading edge of the at least one wing, and tiltable between lift configurations for providing lift for vertical take-off and landing of the aircraft and propulsion configurations for providing fo...