ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,807, issued on April 15, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft and control device for electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft" was invented by Syun Sugita (Kariya, Japan), Akira Iwakawa (Kariya, Japan), Mariko Hashimoto (Kariya, Japan) and Yuuichi Takemura (Kariya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft with a plurality of electric drive systems each including a drive motor for turning a rotor and a drive unit for driving the drive motor includes: a drive information detection unit that detects, for each of the plurality of el...