US Patent Issued to JOBY AERO on April 29 for "Oblique flying wing aircraft with internal ducting and internal propulsion" (California, Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,286,227, issued on April 29, was assigned to JOBY AERO INC. (Santa Cruz, Calif.).

"Oblique flying wing aircraft with internal ducting and internal propulsion" was invented by Gregor Veble Mikic (Santa Cruz, Calif.), JoeBen Bevirt (Santa Cruz, Calif.) and Benjamin John Brelje (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An oblique flying wing aircraft with internal ducting and airflow. The aircraft may have propulsion units within the wing body. The propulsion units may be off-axis internal to the wing to utilize locations with larger internal space available. In some aspects, the multi-segment oblique flying wing aircraft may have thr...