US Patent Issued to Supernal on Sept. 23 for "Vertical take-off and landing craft systems and methods" (Texas, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,922, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Supernal LLC (Washington).

"Vertical take-off and landing craft systems and methods" was invented by William Kyle Heironimus (Dallas), Brian Wang (San Diego), Stephen Chung (Watauga, Texas), Luis Gonzalez (Los Angeles), Tony Li Jung Chen (Irvine, Calif.) and Brett Gibson Morham (Manhattan Beach, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A craft capable of a vertical take-off and landing configuration and a horizontal thrust configuration may include, for example, at least a proprotor, an edgewise blade, and a body. The proprotor may be configured to tilt to achieve a horizontal thrust component. ...