US Patent Issued to Lifting Drones on March 18 for "Unmanned aerial vehicle with hollow interior portion in truss" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,277, issued on March 18, was assigned to Lifting Drones LLC (Schenectady, N.Y.).

"Unmanned aerial vehicle with hollow interior portion in truss" was invented by Andrew John Tomko (Glenville, N.Y.) and Sean Andrew Tomko (Niskayuna, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). The UAV includes a plurality of combustion engine modules, each combustion engine module including a respective helicopter blade propulsion system. A truss connects and separates adjacent pairs of the combustion engine modules of the plurality of combustion engine modules. Each truss includes a hollow interior portion configured to hold ...