ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,959, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to GERMANIUMTECH GMBH (Dresden, Germany).
"Flight unit for an aircraft" was invented by Werner Hufenbach (Dresden, Germany) and Jens Werner (Coswig, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a flight unit for a vertical take-off and landing aircraft with a plurality of drive units arranged on a wing assembly, wherein the wing assembly comprises longitudinally extended wing assembly struts connected to one another at node points. According to the invention, a certain number of the wing assembly struts each comprise at least one wing with aerofoil form, which wing is arranged...