ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,623,798, issued on May 12, was assigned to ORTHODRONE GmbH (Kiel, Germany).

"Aircraft" was invented by Juri Niklas Klusak (Kiel, Germany), Nils Lieckfeldt (Melsdorf, Germany), Mirko Jesper Denecke (Bremerhaven, Germany), Max-Christoph Gurgel (Kiel, Germany), Sebastian Schock (Bendfeld, Germany), Christine Elizabeth Avery (Kiel, Germany), Julian Teege (Flensburg, Germany) and Clara Andrea Drummer (Kiel, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described is an aircraft, in particular a drone, with a supporting body (2) and at least two propulsion arrangements (4, 8) arranged at a distance from one another on the supporting body (2), which are...