ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,375, issued on July 1, was assigned to JETZERO INC. (Long Beach, Calif.).

"Aircraft comprising a plurality of modules and a method for its assembly" was invented by Jennifer Phillips Whitlock (Long Beach, Calif.) and Blaine Knight Rawdon (Long Beach, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aircraft comprising a plurality of modules is disclosed. The aircraft in includes a blended wing body (BWB) aircraft. The blended wing body aircraft comprises a main body, a transition, and wings with no clear demarcation between the wings and the main body along a leading edge of the BWB aircraft. The blended wing aircraft additionally comprises a...