ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,263, issued on June 23.
"Drone having multi-degree-of-freedom flight mode" was invented by Sang Hyun Lee (Nam-gu, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a drone with a multiple DOF flight mode according to the present invention. The drone may include: a fuselage in which a battery is mounted and a forward direction is set in an x-axis; a plurality of rotors disposed around the fuselage in four or more, each rotational axis of which is aligned in a z-axis direction; an x-axis tilting mechanism unit formed to tilt the plurality of rotors about an axis parallel to the x-axis; a y-axis tilting mechanism unit formed to til...