US Patent Issued to Honda Motor on June 17 for "Vertical take-off and landing aircraft" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,779, issued on June 17, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Vertical take-off and landing aircraft" was invented by Bon Aizawa (Wako, Japan), Toshinori Tsukamoto (Wako, Japan), Masashi Kato (Wako, Japan), Kenta Uchida (Wako, Japan) and Kaisaku Yoshimura (Wako, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a vertical take-off and landing aircraft, a plurality of VTOL rotors are divided into a plurality of groups, and each VTOL rotor is included in any one of the groups. After lift is generated by wings (a front wing and a rear wing), a controller sequentially stops rotation of the plurality of VTOL rotors on a group-by-group basi...