US Patent Issued to TEXTRON INNOVATIONS on Feb. 18 for "Distributed propulsion system for vertical take off and landing closed wing aircraft" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,227,291, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to TEXTRON INNOVATIONS INC. (Providence, R.I.).

"Distributed propulsion system for vertical take off and landing closed wing aircraft" was invented by Carlos Alexander Fenny (Fort Worth, Texas), Rohn Lee Olson (Hurst, Texas) and Andrew James Zahasky (North Richland Hills, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aircraft includes a closed wing, a fuselage at least partially disposed within a perimeter of the closed wing, and one or more spokes coupling the closed wing to the fuselage. A source of electric power is disposed within or attached to the closed wing, fuselage or one or more spokes. A plu...