ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,631, issued on March 24, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Flying object" was invented by Shunichiro Tamada (Wako, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A flying object includes: a fuselage; a wing that extends laterally from the fuselage and can generate lift during cruising; and a thrust generation unit that can generate thrust. The wing includes a fixed wing portion fixed to the fuselage, and a deployable wing portion deployable forward in a front-rear direction from the fixed wing portion, and a plane area of the wing in a deployed state in which the deployable wing portion is deployed forward in the front-rear direc...