ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,312,076, issued on May 27, was assigned to Changzhou Taifei Electric Co. Ltd. (Changzhou, China).
"Electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft" was invented by Tianfeng Wu (Jiangsu, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric aircraft is capable of vertically taking off and landing. The aircraft includes a fuselage, front and rear power units, power pods, main wings, ailerons, front landing gears, a tail wing and a rear landing gear. The power units include first and second electric duct groups. The first electric duct group includes two electric duct fans symmetrically and connected to two sides of a front portion of the fusela...