ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,600,458, issued on April 14, was assigned to Archer Aviation Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Aircraft" was invented by Peter Onodi (Wessling, Germany), Adam Smith (Wessling, Germany), Chia Hui Lim (Wessling, Germany), Inigo Ugarte (Wessling, Germany) and Benjamin Eduard Wilkosz (Wessling, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aircraft includes at least two propulsion units being pivotable and arranged adjacent to each other along an arrangement direction. The propulsion units include a propulsion rotor and a duct for guiding air to the rotor. The duct has a non-circular inlet portion, a circular downstream portion located downstream of th...