ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,829, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Korea Aerospace Research Institute (Daejeon, South Korea).
"Tilt prop aircraft" was invented by Jun Ho Cho (Daejeon, South Korea), Myeong Kyu Lee (Daejeon, South Korea) and Seong Wook Choi (Daejeon, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tilt prop aircraft is provided, including a first longitudinal support member and a second longitudinal support member capable of tilting relatively to each other, a tilt actuator disposed on the second longitudinal support member, a first power transmission member rotated by the tilt actuator, a second power transmission member fixed to the first longitudi...