US Patent Issued to CYCLOTECH on Jan. 13 for "Aircraft" (Austrian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,522,385, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to CYCLOTECH GMBH (Linz, Austria).

"Aircraft" was invented by Klemens Hofreither (St. Valentin, Austria) and Lukas Kinast (Linz, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aircraft includes an aircraft body defining a longitudinal direction, a vertical direction and a transverse direction, and at least two propulsion devices rotatable about a respective associated axis of rotation to generate a respective associated thrust vector, wherein a first number of propulsion devices are arranged along a first straight line, which is parallel to the transverse direction, and a second number of propulsion de...