US Patent Issued to BETA AIR on Oct. 14 for "Electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft lift motor with air cooling" (North Carolina Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,441,479, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to BETA AIR LLC (South Burlington, Vt.).

"Electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft lift motor with air cooling" was invented by Raffaello Verna (Creedmoor, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft lift motor is disclosed. The eVTOL aircraft lift motor includes a stator connected to the eVTOL motor and a rotor coaxial within the stator. The stator includes an inner cylindrical surface and an outer cylindrical surface coaxial about an axis. The rotor includes a rotor cylindrical surface defining the axis, an air gap formed by combini...