US Patent Issued to SZ DJI TECHNOLOGY on Sept. 1 for "Aircraft" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,722,811, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to SZ DJI TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Shenzhen, China).

"Aircraft" was invented by Xiang Xiao (Shenzhen, China), Qiankun He (Shenzhen, China) and Quanlei Liu (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) includes: a body including a nose and a tail opposite to the nose; a plurality of rotor devices respectively mounted on the body; and a rear obstacle avoidance sensor mounted on a top part of the body, the UAV has a backward flight state of flying in a direction towards the tail and a hover state of stably hovering in a wind-free environment; in the hover state, the bod...