ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,371,160, issued on July 29, was assigned to FLYON Aerosystems Ltd. (Tel-Aviv, Israel).
"Multi-level vertiport" was invented by Oren Tal (Kfar-Sava, Israel) and Reuven Tal (Tel-Aviv, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aerial vehicle has a passenger cabin for receiving at least one passenger, a load-bearing structure beneath the cabin, and a propulsion system including a number of propulsion units, which propel the aerial vehicle for powered flight and vertical take-off and landing (VTOL). The propulsion units are preferably carried by support arms attached to the load-bearing structure and extending upwards therefrom so as to suppor...