US Patent Issued to LEONARDO on July 15 for "Aircraft capable of hovering including a by-pass air intake open to the motor bay" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,639, issued on July 15, was assigned to LEONARDO S.P.A. (Rome).

"Aircraft capable of hovering including a by-pass air intake open to the motor bay" was invented by Marco Braghiroli (Samarate, Italy) and Enrico Canta (Samarate, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aircraft with a motor bay is described; a motor system with a discharge duct; a heat exchanger arranged outside said motor system; a first air intake; a first duct along which the heat exchanger is arranged; a first converging nozzle having a downstream section fluidically connected with the discharge duct and with the first duct so as to create a first flow rate of air a...