US Patent Issued to SkyLifter on Sept. 1 for "Airship" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,722,766, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to SkyLifter Ltd (Redditch, Great Britain).

"Airship" was invented by Jeremy George David Fitton (Redditch, Great Britain) and David Graham Taylor (Rudgwick, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An airship comprising an airship body, a ballast assembly comprising at least one ballast pod (3) coupled to the airship body, and a payload lifting device (4, 6) coupled to the airship body and configured to lift a payload wherein the ballast assembly is configured to vary a weight force applied to the airship body by said ballast pod (3) when a payload is applied to the payload lifting device (4,...