US Patent Issued to Honda Motor on June 3 for "Unmanned aerial vehicle powered using electric propulsion" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,319,448, issued on June 3, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Unmanned aerial vehicle powered using electric propulsion" was invented by Ricky Jukuei Hsu (Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif.), Jean-Hugues Tuan Huy Nguyen (Los Angeles), Franco Corral (Los Angeles) and Romain Daniel Charles Mivelle (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) powered using electric propulsion is provided. The unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) includes a main frame and a plurality of thrust rings. The plurality of thrust rings is arranged in a first spatial configuration around the main frame and is rotatably coupled to at lea...