US Patent Issued to REGENT Craft on July 28 for "Wing-in-ground effect vehicle" (Massachusetts, Virginia, California, New Hampshire Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,691,863, issued on July 28, was assigned to REGENT Craft Inc. (North Kingstown, R.I.).

"Wing-in-ground effect vehicle" was invented by William Thalheimer (Waltham, Mass.), Michael Klinker (Hollis, N.H.), William Bryan Baker (Cohasset, Mass.), Edward Lester (Somerville, Mass.), Daniel Cottrell (Centreville, Va.) and Christian Bailey (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example wing-in-ground effect vehicle includes (i) a main wing having main wing control surfaces; (ii) a tail having tail control surfaces; (iii) a blown-wing propulsion system arranged along the main wing or the tail; (iv) a retractable hydrofoil configured...