US Patent Issued to CLEO ROBOTICS on Oct. 21 for "Unmanned vehicle with multiple transportation modes" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,448,158, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to CLEO ROBOTICS INC. (Boston).

"Unmanned vehicle with multiple transportation modes" was invented by Omar Eleryan (Boston) and Szymon Czarnota (Boston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and device include a vehicle for providing horizontal directional control in a first transportation mode and a second transportation mode. The vehicle is an unmanned aerial vehicle with the duct defining a ducted air pathway with a central axis. One or more propellor(s) are arranged to move air through the ducted air pathway. One or more flap(s) are movable between multiple positions that vary a dist...