ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,629, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Wisk Aero LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Personal aircraft" was invented by Ilan Kroo (Stanford, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A safe, quiet, easy to control, efficient, and compact aircraft configuration is enabled through the combination of multiple vertical lift rotor assemblies, tandem wings, and forward thrust propellers. The vertical lift rotor assemblies, in combination with a front and rear wing, permits a balancing of the center of lift with the center of gravity for both vertical and horizontal flight. This wing and multiple rotor system has the ability to tolerate a relatively l...