US Patent Issued to Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics on Sept. 23 for "Rotary wing-fixed wing convertible morphing aircraft" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,923, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (Nanjing, China).

"Rotary wing-fixed wing convertible morphing aircraft" was invented by Xiayang Zhang (Nanjing, China), Chencheng Gao (Nanjing, China), Wei Li (Nanjing, China), Tingjie Mei (Nanjing, China) and Bin Luo (Nanjing, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a rotary wing-fixed wing convertible morphing aircraft including a fuselage, and at least two morphing wing structures arranged on the fuselage. A tail of the fuselage is provided with a tail-thrust propeller, and each of the at least two morphing wings has an adjustabl...