ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,528,579, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Textron Innovations Inc. (Providence, R.I.).
"Tilting hexrotor aircraft" was invented by Brent C. Ross (Flower Mound, Texas), Kirk L. Groninga (Keller, Texas), Steven R. Ivans (Ponder, Texas), Steve R. Schafer (Fort Worth, Texas), Brad Joseph Passe (Irving, Texas), Nicholas Ralph Carlson (Dallas), Kip Gregory Campbell (Hurst, Texas), Bradley Paul Regnier (Fort Worth, Texas) and Steven G. Hagerott (Wichita, Kan.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One embodiment is an aircraft including a fuselage; a wing connected to the fuselage; first and second booms connected to the wing on opposite sides of the...