ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,552,529, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to LEONARDO S.P.A. (Rome).
"Convertible aircraft capable of hovering" was invented by Luca Medici (Samarate, Italy), Riccardo Bianco Mengotti (Samarate, Italy), Andrea Bavetta (Samarate, Italy) and Marco Basaglia (Samarate, Italy).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aircraft comprising a fuselage with a nose and a tail arranged on opposite parts to each other along a first longitudinal axis is described; a pair of half-wings arranged on respective mutually opposite sides of the fuselage; a first and a second rotor carried by respective half-wings, respectively rotatable around a second and third axis...