ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,580, issued on March 24, was assigned to Archer Aviation Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Aircraft tilt apparatus including variable cooling air inlet" was invented by Bharat Tulsyan (San Jose, Calif.), Christopher M. Heath (Avon, Ohio), Kerry Manning (Parker, Colo.), Giovanni Droandi (San Jose, Calif.), Michael Schwekutsch (Los Gatos, Calif.), Scott Michael Graves (Felton, Calif.) and Jonathan Anthony Beno (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tilt apparatus of an aircraft, comprising: a propeller, a motor assembly, a thermal transfer device thermally coupled to the motor assembly, and a nacelle coupled to the motor assembly. ...