ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,539,981, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Moonware Inc. (Boston).

"Autonomous, electric vehicle for aviation-related applications" was invented by Javier Vidal Rojas (Boston), Saunon Rod Malekshahi (Boston), Andrew Arnold (Boston), Dimitrios Bailas (Boston), Atanaz Bohlooli (Boston), Camille Carr (Boston), Orhan Elam (Boston), Dima Fayyad (Boston), Marc Jabbour (Boston), Lucas Liu (Boston), Berke Ozdemir (Boston), Vedant Singh (Boston), Philipp Haban (San Francisco) and Matthew Derkach (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An autonomous vehicle includes a chassis for housing an aircraft ground contacting structure (GCS) and one o...