US Patent Issued to Hood Technology on Aug. 12 for "Rotorcraft-assisted system and method for launching and retrieving a fixed-wing aircraft into and from free flight" (Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,384,559, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Hood Technology Corp. (Hood River, Ore.).

"Rotorcraft-assisted system and method for launching and retrieving a fixed-wing aircraft into and from free flight" was invented by Andreas H. von Flotow (Hood River, Ore.), Corydon C. Roeseler (Hood River, Ore.), Daniel Pepin Reiss (Hood River, Ore.) and Jessie Massong (Hood River, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments of the present disclosure provide a rotorcraft-assisted system and method for launching and retrieving a fixed-wing aircraft into and from free flight. The launch and retrieval system includes a modular multicopter, a ...