ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,600,456, issued on April 14, was assigned to JOBY AERO INC. (Santa Cruz, Calif.).
"VTOL aircraft for network system" was invented by Mark Moore (San Francisco), Nikhil Goel (San Francisco), John Conway Badalamenti (San Francisco), Jon D. Petersen (Walnut Creek, Calif.) and David Josephson (Santa Cruz, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft provides transportation to users of a network system. The network system may include multiple aircraft or other types of vehicles to provide multi-model transportation. An aircraft may include a fuselage, a truss coupled to the fuselage, and multiple dist...