ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,371, issued on July 1, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Thrust generating device" was invented by Kenta Uchida (Wako, Japan), Toshinori Tsukamoto (Wako, Japan), Masashi Kato (Wako, Japan), Bon Aizawa (Wako, Japan) and Kaisaku Yoshimura (Wako, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A controller of a thrust generating device executes one of first control of controlling thrust by changing the pitch angle of each blade while maintaining the rotational speed of a propeller at a reference value, or second control of allowing the thrust greater than the thrust generated in the first control to be generated by making the rotationa...