US Patent Issued to SUBARU on Dec. 16 for "Aircraft" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,497,198, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to SUBARU Corp. (Tokyo).

"Aircraft" was invented by Kazuhisa Takaki (Tokyo) and Hokuto Yamane (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aircraft includes: a main body; arms extending substantially horizontally from the main body; rotors that are located at distal ends of the arms and generate lift by rotating; first motors that are coupled to the rotors and rotate the rotors; motor mounts supporting the first motors; and second motors that rotate the motor mounts relative to the arms. The motor mounts each includes a mount proximal end, a mount distal end, and a bent part. The first motors are each...