ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,265, issued on March 18, was assigned to Jetoptera Inc. (Edmonds, Wash.).

"Fluidic propulsive system and thrust and lift generator for aerial vehicles" was invented by Andrei Evulet (Edmonds, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle includes a main body and a gas generator producing a gas stream. At least one fore conduit and tail conduit are fluidly coupled to the generator. First and second fore ejectors are fluidly coupled to the at least one fore conduit. At least one tail ejector is fluidly coupled to the at least one tail conduit. The fore ejectors respectively include an outlet structure out of which gas from the at lea...