ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,428,148, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Textron Innovations Inc. (Providence, R.I.).
"Unmanned rotorcraft with dual cargo doors" was invented by Steven R. Ivans (Ponder, Texas) and Berlin B. Benfield (Grapevine, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is disclosed in one example an unmanned vertical lift aircraft, comprising: an airframe; a drive system configured for vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL); a power plant to power the drive system; and an internal cargo bay comprising a fore aperture and an aft aperture, the fore and aft apertures having dimensions substantially conforming to a cross section of the internal cargo ba...