US Patent Issued to Georgia Tech Research on Jan. 27 for "Polyhedral rotorcraft modules for modular aircraft" (Georgia, Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,229, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Georgia Tech Research Corp. (Atlanta).

"Polyhedral rotorcraft modules for modular aircraft" was invented by Kevin Pierre Garanger (Atlanta), Jeremy Epps (Mechanicsville, Va.), Eric Marie J Feron (Marietta, Ga.) and Thanakorn Khamvilai (Atlanta).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A modular and reconfigurable aircraft including a first aircraft module, a second aircraft module, a plurality of connectors, and a coupler. The first aircraft module can include a polyhedral cage structure, a propeller disposed in an interior of the polyhedral cage structure, and a motor disposed in the interior of the poly...