ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,942, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Autonomous Devices Ltd. (Milton Keynes, Great Britain).
"Thrust vectoring for fluid borne vehicles" was invented by Ken Wahren (Buckingham, Great Britain), Oliver Henry Haanen (London) and Michael Alexander Snook (Sharnbrook, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example implementations provide fluid-borne vehicles comprising a body and a plurality of thrust vectoring modules, each thrust vectoring module comprising a set of thrust producing means, wherein a first thrust producing means, mounted on a first mounting bar having a first mounting bar axis, is rotatable about the mounting bar...