US Patent Issued to Sichuan Aerofugia Technology Development, ZHEJIANG GEELY HOLDING GROUP on Dec. 23 for "Vertical take-off and landing aircraft and control method of vertical take-off and landing aircraft" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,503,227, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Sichuan Aerofugia Technology Development Co. Ltd. (Chengdu, China) and ZHEJIANG GEELY HOLDING GROUP Co. LTD. (Hangzhou, China).

"Vertical take-off and landing aircraft and control method of vertical take-off and landing aircraft" was invented by Zhaohua Xu (Chengdu, China), Songbai Xue (Chengdu, China), Qiang Tu (Chengdu, China), Yongxiang Sha (Chengdu, China), Liang Guo (Chengdu, China), Junchang Luo (Chengdu, China) and Shaiming Xie (Chengdu, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vertical take-off and landing aircraft includes a fuselage, 2N tilting rotors, and 2N fixed rotors. Wings of a fi...