US Patent Issued to Airbound International on Sept. 15 for "Blended wing body tailsitter UAV" (Indian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,735,181, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Airbound International Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Blended wing body tailsitter UAV" was invented by Naman Pushp (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to an aircraft including two or more propulsive devices, and a fuselage integrated with a pair of wings to create a Blended Wing Body (BWB) structure, wherein an orientation of the fuselage and the pair of wings change based on a transition of the aircraft from a vertical position to a horizontal position. Further, each wing of the pair of wings includes a lower winglet and an upper winglet that are ident...