US Patent Issued to Kitty Hawk on March 18 for "Attachment sub-systems for vertically-stacked multicopters" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,239, issued on March 18, was assigned to Kitty Hawk Corp. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Attachment sub-systems for vertically-stacked multicopters" was invented by Benjamin Otto Berry (Mountain View, Calif.), Graham Bowen-Davies (San Jose, Calif.), Madeline Elliott Parker (San Francisco), Cameron Robertson (San Mateo, Calif.) and Christopher Scott Saunders (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A plurality of propellers generates vertical thrust at least some of the time. An attachment sub-system detachably couples to a vertical connector, where a plurality of vertically-stacked multicopters are configured to detachably couple to ...