ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,584, issued on March 24, was assigned to JetZero Inc. (Long Beach, Calif.).
"Tanker aircraft for long-distance travel" was invented by Mark Allan Page (Long Beach, Calif.), John Charles Vassberg (Long Beach, Calif.) and Blaine Knight Rawdon (Long Beach, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tanker aircraft for long-distance travel, the tanker aircraft including a blended wing body having a main body, a transition, and wings with no clear demarcation between the wings and the main body along a leading edge of the tanker aircraft, a fuel storage located within the blended wing body, the fuel storage comprising a first fuel store, th...