ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,995, issued on May 13, was assigned to MATSUYAMA DRONE SERVICE Corp. (Ehime, Japan).
"Flight vehicle" was invented by Hideyuki Ogasawara (Ehime, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A flight vehicle includes a main body arranged at a center of the flight vehicle, a controller mounted on the main body, a plurality of arms extending radially outward from the main body and being spaced apart from each other in a circumferential direction, with each arm having a motor and a propeller arranged at a radially outer tip of the arm, and wings that are separate from the main body. Each wing connects two adjacent arms of the plurality of arms, ...