ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,617, issued on July 15, was assigned to LEONARDO S.P.A. (Rome).
"Convertible aircraft capable of hovering" was invented by Riccardo Bianco Mengotti (Samarate, Italy).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A convertible aircraft with an airframe defining a first longitudinal axis is described; a pair of half-wings; a first, a second, a third, a fourth, a fifth and a sixth rotor rotatable about respective first, second, third, fourth, fifth and sixth axis, and operable independently of each other so as to generate respectively a first, a second, a third, a fourth, a fifth and a sixth thrust value independent of each other; said fifth and sixth ...