ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,451,556, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to KOREA AEROSPACE RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Daejeon, South Korea).
"Electric aircraft" was invented by Hyo Jung Ahn (Daejeon, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric aircraft according to an embodiment of the present invention comprises: a fuselage equipped with a power means, a front spar and a rear spar extending from the fuselage to an end of a wing, and a plurality of ribs extending from the rear spar to the front spar and coupled to the front spar and the rear spar, in which a plurality of solid state batteries are mounted in a plurality of individual spaces partitioned by the front...