US Patent Issued to Joby Aero on Dec. 2 for "High efficiency air intake system and aircraft using same" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,486,016, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Joby Aero Inc. (Santa Cruz, Calif.).

"High efficiency air intake system and aircraft using same" was invented by Gregor Veble Mikic (Santa Cruz, Calif.), JoeBen Bevirt (Santa Cruz, Calif.), Edward Stilson (Santa Cruz, Calif.) and Alex Stoll (Santa Cruz, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aerial vehicle configured with air intake in an otherwise higher drag location. In some aspects, the aerial vehicle is a vertical take-off and landing aircraft. The aircraft may intake the air to provide air to a hydrogen fuel cell system within the aircraft. The aircraft may have electric motor driven roto...