ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,766,900, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Bazooka-Farmstar LLC (Washington, Iowa).

"Amphibious vehicle" was invented by Phillip Minino (Washington, Iowa), Jeffery Huber (Wellman, Iowa), Matthew Hirsch (Washington, Iowa) and Jason Albright (Wellman, Iowa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An amphibious vehicle having a frame that includes a plurality of floatable members. Mounted to the frame is one or more power sources. Also mounted to the frame and connected to the power source are a plurality of propellers with each of the plurality of propellers having a thrust vector configured to be adjusted to provide agitation and propulsion. In ad...