ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,325,516, issued on June 10, was assigned to TEXTRON INNOVATIONS INC. (Providence, R.I.).
"Distributed propulsion system" was invented by Carlos Alexander Fenny (Fort Worth, Texas) and Rohn Lee Olson (Hurst, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention includes a distributed propulsion system for a craft that comprises a frame, a plurality of hydraulic or electric motors disposed within or attached to the frame in a distributed configuration; a propeller operably connected to each of the hydraulic or electric motors, a source of hydraulic or electric power disposed within or attached to the frame and coupled to each of the d...