US Patent Issued to TEXTRON INNOVATIONS on May 27 for "Distributed propulsion system for vertical take off and landing closed wing aircraft" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,312,078, issued on May 27, 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 comprises a fuselage, first and second wing segments each having a leading edge and a trailing edge, a plurality of spokes coupling the fuselage to the first and second wing segments, one or more motors disposed within or attached to the plurality of spokes, and three or more propel...