US Patent Issued to ZIPAIR on Oct. 7 for "Hybrid flying device" (French Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,834, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to ZIPAIR (Chateauneuf-les-Martigues, France).

"Hybrid flying device" was invented by Frankie Zapata (Le Rove, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A flying device includes a main body, to which a combustion engine, an electric motor, an electricity generator and an electrical energy transfer circuit are attached. The combustion engine and electric motor are arranged to create thrust vectors and are placed on either side of the main body in order to create thrust vectors on each side of a plane of separation of said body. The electricity generator is mechanically coupled to the combustion engine in...