US Patent Issued to LEONARDO on Dec. 23 for "Fuselage for a convertible aircraft capable of hovering" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,503,245, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to LEONARDO S.P.A. (Rome).

"Fuselage for a convertible aircraft capable of hovering" was invented by Luca Medici (Samarate, Italy), Riccardo Bianco Mengotti (Samarate, Italy), Andrea Bavetta (Samarate, Italy) and Marco Basaglia (Samarate, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fuselage for a convertible aircraft is described, comprising a nose and a tail arranged on mutually opposite sides along a first longitudinal axis of the fuselage; a first portion and a second portion arranged one after the other, proceeding along the first axis from the nose towards the tail; and an electric power source co...