ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,617,536, issued on May 5, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Moving object" was invented by Takuya Kubota (Wako, Japan), Yuichi Fukuchi (Wako, Japan), Azuki Ichikawa (Wako, Japan) and Hikari Hirayanagi (Wako, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A VTOL aircraft (moving object) includes: a first communication path allowing a cabin (passenger compartment) and a component compartment to communicate with each other; and a second communication path for opening the component compartment to the outside of a fuselage. A portion of air in the cabin flows through a first circulation path and returns to the cabin, and the remaining air in...