US Patent Issued to Kitty Hawk on Sept. 8 for "Multicopter with self-adjusting rotors" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,452, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Kitty Hawk Corp. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Multicopter with self-adjusting rotors" was invented by Sebastian Thrun (Los Altos Hills, Calif.) and Benjamin Otto Berry (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "During a vertical landing state, it is decided whether to switch from the vertical landing state to a self adjusting state. The VTOL vehicle includes the flight controller, the rotor, and a fuselage where the rotor is coupled to the fuselage via a vertical connector. If it is so decided, there is a switch from the vertical landing state to the self adjusting state. During the self ad...