US Patent Issued to Honda Motor on Sept. 23 for "Aircraft" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,942, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Aircraft" was invented by Azuki Ichikawa (Wako, Japan), Yuichi Fukuchi (Wako, Japan), Hikari Hirayanagi (Wako, Japan) and Takuya Kubota (Wako, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The aircraft includes a fuselage, an engine disposed in the fuselage, an exhaust outlet provided at a tail of the fuselage for discharging exhaust gas from the engine to the outside, and a cruise rotor positioned rearward of the exhaust outlet and generating horizontal thrust on the fuselage. The exhaust outlet and the cruise rotor do not overlap each other when viewed from the directi...