US Patent Issued to CLEO ROBOTICS on Dec. 30 for "Flight control for an unmanned aerial vehicle" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,509,218, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to CLEO ROBOTICS INC. (Boston).

"Flight control for an unmanned aerial vehicle" was invented by Omar Eleryan (Boston) and Szymon Czarnota (Boston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lightweight, pocket-sized unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) that can be held in an outstretched hand by a user for take-off and landing of the UAV. The UAV comprises a semi-toroidal or a substantially toroidal hollow body that defines a duct. The UAV further comprises a motor for rotating a fan that directs air into and out of the duct enabling UAV to take flight. The UAV comprises a flight-control system that comprises at le...