US Patent Issued to Autonomous Flight Systems on May 12 for "Free wing multirotor transitional S/VTOL aircraft" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,623,776, issued on May 12, was assigned to Autonomous Flight Systems Inc. (Delta, Canada).

"Free wing multirotor transitional S/VTOL aircraft" was invented by Edward Dolejsi (Delta, Canada) and Daniel Heim (Vancouver, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An improved aircraft design to harness advantages of vertical or short-takeoff and landings (V/STOL) and efficient horizontal flight is disclosed. The aircraft design includes multiple thrust sources and wings which are free to rotate on a spanwise axis, and have their center of gravity aft of the axis of rotation. Wing rotation is decoupled from both the fuselage and the thrust sources....