US Patent Issued to Iwaya on Oct. 27 for "Flight craft" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,774,078, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Iwaya Inc. (Japan).

"Flight craft" was invented by Keisuke Iwaya (Ebetsu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A flight craft comprises: an intermediate member, which has an annular shape in a plan view and has a flat cross-sectional shape when cut along a plane that includes a straight line in a direction of the plan view; a plurality of gores, each of which extends from an outer side to an inner side of the intermediate member in the plan view, passes through an inner opening of the intermediate member, is folded back, and then extends from the inner side to the outer side of the intermediate...