ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,972, issued on May 13, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Airflow guide structure and aircraft" was invented by Masahiko Asanuma (Saitama, Japan) and Susumu Mashio (Saitama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The aircraft includes a fuselage, a front wing and a rear wing provided to extend laterally from the fuselage for generating lift during cruise, a boom extending in a front-back direction supported by these wings to be spaced apart from the fuselage, a VTOL rotor supported on the boom and having one or more blades for generating thrust in a vertical direction during take-off and landing, a cooling system for coolin...