US Patent Issued to DIC on July 21 for "Mobile object and mobile object flying method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,484, issued on July 21, was assigned to DIC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Mobile object and mobile object flying method" was invented by Takashi Ikeda (Tokyo), Tomoyuki Furukawa (Tokyo) and Kyouichi Toyomura (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mobile object 1 according to the present disclosure includes a body 10 provided as a first polyhedron, and rotary-wing modules 20 attached to the body 10 at all vertices of the first polyhedron. The rotary-wing modules 20 each include a rotary wing 21 and a drive unit 22. The drive unit 22 is configured to drive the rotary wing 21. The rotary wings 21 are located outside the body 10 and each have a rotat...