US Patent Issued to Wisk Aero on Jan. 13 for "Multicopter with angled rotors" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,022, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Wisk Aero LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Multicopter with angled rotors" was invented by James Joseph Tighe (San Jose, Calif.) and Eric Allison (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multicopter with angled rotors includes a fuselage and a plurality of rotors. At least some of the rotors are disposed on opposite sides of the fuselage and each is oriented at a corresponding angle to a substantially horizontal plane of the aircraft, the angle being of a magnitude such that a plane of rotation of the rotor does not intersect at least a critical portion of the fuselage."

The patent...