US Patent Issued to BOARD OF REGENTS, THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM on April 22 for "Vertical take off and landing aircraft" (Texas, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,280,869, issued on April 22, was assigned to BOARD OF REGENTS, THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM (Austin, Texas).

"Vertical take off and landing aircraft" was invented by Mehmet E. Erengil (Austin, Texas), Jayant Sirohi (Austin, Texas), Fabrizio Bisetti (Austin, Texas) and Christopher G. Cameron (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments described herein relate to a vertical take-off and landing aircraft, specifically an electric or hybrid electric aircraft having a plurality of ducted fans. The aircraft includes a plurality of axially oriented fans, laterally oriented fans, forward air intakes, side exit ports, rear exhaus...