US Patent Issued to Joby Aero on Aug. 5 for "Rotor assembly deployment mechanism and aircraft using same" (California, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,377,976, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Joby Aero Inc. (Santa Cruz, Calif.).

"Rotor assembly deployment mechanism and aircraft using same" was invented by Robert Thodal (Santa Cruz, Calif.), Florian Jule (Santa Cruz, Calif.), Baixi Pei (Newark, Calif.), Joachim Grenestedt (Hellertown, Pa.) and Jordin Gischler (Santa Cruz, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rotor assembly deployment mechanism configured to deploy a rotor assembly of a vertical take-off and landing aircraft from a horizontal, forward thrust, position to a vertical, hover, position. The rotor assembly deployment mechanism is configured to deploy an electric motor and...