ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,781, issued on June 17, was assigned to REGENT Craft Inc. (North Kingstown, R.I.).

"Wing-in-ground effect vehicles and methods of control" was invented by William Thalheimer (Waltham, Mass.), Michael Klinker (Hollis, N.H.), William Bryan Baker (Cohasset, Mass.), Edward Lester (Somerville, Mass.), Daniel Cottrell (Centreville, Va.), Christian Bailey (Palo Alto, Calif.), David Larson (Medford, Mass.), Bradley C. Buskirk (Charlotte, N.C.), Jason Castriota (Stamford, Mass.), Marco Borge (Volpiano, Italy), Andrew Gregg (Roslindale, Mass.), Andrew Levin (Cambridge, Mass.) and Michael Christopher Tilley (Amherst, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark ...