ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,275,523, issued on April 15, was assigned to Wisk Aero LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Integrated propeller-boom fairing" was invented by Neel Vora (San Mateo, Calif.) and Pranay Sinha (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments provide a VTOL aircraft including a plurality of tilting propeller assemblies each coupled to a support structure and configured to transition between a vertical flight and a forward flight position. Each tilting propeller assembly comprising a propeller and a movable fairing provided downstream of the propeller. The movable fairing is configured to extend along an axis of rotation of the propeller...