US Patent Issued to LEONARDO on Aug. 19 for "Vertical take-off and landing aircraft and related control method" (Italian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,391,377, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to LEONARDO S.P.A. (Rome).

"Vertical take-off and landing aircraft and related control method" was invented by Riccardo Bianco Mengotti (Samarate, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aircraft capable of vertical take-off and landing, comprising a first propulsion unit configured to generate a first thrust directed along a first axis; a second propulsion unit configured to generate a second thrust directed along a second axis; the first propulsion unit and the second propulsion unit can be operated independently of one another; the first axis and second axis are inclined to one another with res...