US Patent Issued to Joby Aero on Dec. 16 for "VTOL aircraft with dual propellers and directional clutch" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,497,158, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Joby Aero Inc. (Santa Cruz, Calif.).

"VTOL aircraft with dual propellers and directional clutch" was invented by Joeben Bevirt (Santa Cruz, Canada) and Alex Stoll (Santa Cruz, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aerial vehicle adapted for vertical takeoff and landing using a set of wing mounted thrust producing elements for takeoff and landing. An aerial vehicle which is adapted to vertical takeoff with the rotors in a rotated, take-off attitude then transitions to a horizontal flight path, with the rotors rotated to a typical horizontal configuration. The aerial vehicle may have deploymen...