ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,243, issued on March 18, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Aircraft" was invented by Yuji Ishitsuka (Wako, Japan) and Kazuma Yoshii (Wako, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a front view of this aircraft, there is an over-lap portion where at least a part of a fuselage and at least a part of two cruising rotors overlap, and a rear portion of the fuselage has an inclined surface which is displaced downward from upward progressing from the front to the rear, such that the area of the overlap portion gradually becomes smaller progressing from the front to the rear."
The patent was filed on Dec. 15, 2020, under Applic...