US Patent Issued to Honda Motor on Oct. 6 for "Flight vehicle" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,752,912, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Flight vehicle" was invented by Ryo Kawauchi (Wako, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A flight vehicle of an embodiment includes: a flight vehicle main body; and a landing leg configured to be capable of transitioning between a storage state in which the landing leg is stored to a position along the flight vehicle main body and an expansion state in which the landing leg is expanded to a position away from the flight vehicle main body. The flight vehicle main body includes a first protrusion that protrudes from part of the flight vehicle main body. The landing le...