ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,741,736, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITEIT DELFT (Delft, Netherlands).

"Aeronautical vehicle and method of transitioning between flight modes for an aeronautical vehicle" was invented by Bart Diane Walter Remes (Delft, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aeronautical vehicle performs horizontal flight and/or vertical flight, and has a fuselage, a wing assembly having a first wing part and a second wing part rigidly coupled to one another, a rotor assembly, a horizontal thruster, and an attitude control system. The wing assembly is arranged rotatably with respect to the fuselage to rotate about a verti...