ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,600,470, issued on April 14, was assigned to Archer Aviation Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Vertical take-off and landing aircraft" was invented by Geoffrey C. Bower (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Thomas P. Muniz (San Jose, Calif.), Brett Adcock (Los Altos Hills, Calif.), Adam Goldstein (New York), Calder Richmond Hughes (Portland, Ore.), Zachary Robert Timm Hazen (Portland, Ore.) and Chad Stuart Kossar (Hood River, Ore.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vertical take-off and landing aircraft includes a fuselage, at least one wing connected to the fuselage, a plurality of rotors connected to the at least one wing for providing lift for vertical take-of...