ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,896, issued on March 31.
"Industrial aerial robot systems and methods" was invented by Thomas W. Melcher (Mesa, Ariz.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aircraft has a boom, a propulsion assembly coupled to a first end of the boom, and a first wing coupled to a second end of the boom. The first wing can be coupled to the boom by a (first) articulated joint. The propulsion assembly can be coupled to the boom by a (second) articulated joint. The articulated joints can provide various adjustments between the wing(s) and the boom (e.g., stowed, deployed, anhedral, dihedral, sweep, angle of attack, collective pitch control, the cyclic pit...