US Patent Issued to JetZero on March 24 for "Blended wing body aircraft with rear engines" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,585, issued on March 24, was assigned to JetZero Inc. (Long Beach, Calif.).

"Blended wing body aircraft with rear engines" was invented by John Charles Vassberg (Long Beach, Calif.), Mark Allan Page (Orange, Calif.) and Blaine Knight Rawdon (Riverside, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is an aircraft with engines positioned so as to avoid damage to other components of the aircraft. The aircraft may include a blended wing body aircraft. The engines may be positioned aft of a pressure vessel of the aircraft. The engines may be positioned aft of and/or above a fuel store of the aircraft. Such engine positioning may...