US Patent Issued to LEONARDO on Dec. 2 for "Series of convertible aircrafts capable of hovering and method for configuring a convertible aircraft capable of hovering" (Italian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,486,055, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to LEONARDO S.P.A. (Rome).

"Series of convertible aircrafts capable of hovering and method for configuring a convertible aircraft capable of hovering" was invented by Riccardo Bianco Mengotti (Samarate, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A series of convertible aircrafts with a core with an airframe defining a first axis is described; a first, a second, a third, a fourth, a fifth and a sixth rotor which are rotatable about respective first, second, third, fourth, fifth and sixth axis, and operable independently of each other so as to generate respectively a first, a second, a third, a fourth, a fi...