US Patent Issued to MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES on July 22 for "Aircraft" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,365,448, issued on July 22, was assigned to MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES LTD. (Tokyo).

"Aircraft" was invented by Chihiro Myoren (Tokyo), Yuji Koike (Tokyo) and Kazuhiro Imai (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aircraft includes a fuselage body extending in a front-rear direction; a tail wing at a rear portion of the fuselage body in the front-rear direction; a main wing in front of the tail wing in the front-rear direction on the fuselage body; and a fan device on an outer surface of the fuselage body. The fan device includes a rotor shaft outside the outer surface of the fuselage body, a rotor blade on an outer side of the rotor sh...