ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,300, issued on April 21, was assigned to Method Aeronautics LLC (Falls Church, Va.).
"Vertical take-off and landing aircraft" was invented by Neil Boertlein (McLean, Va.), Daniel Hatfield (Arlington, Va.) and Jeremy Novara (Falls Church, Va.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A VTOL aircraft includes a pod having a pod forward portion and a pod aft portion. The pod forward portion is connected to an inboard wing of the VTOL aircraft and the pod aft portion is connected to an outboard wing and a vertical stabilizer of the VTOL aircraft. The pod aft portion rotates, together with the outboard wing and the vertical stabilizer, about a cent...