ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,538, issued on July 14, was assigned to Textron Innovations Inc. (Providence, R.I.).
"Electric aircraft" was invented by Gonzalo Eduardo Mendoza (Wichita, Kan.), Corey Wailes Hagemeister (Wichita, Kan.) and Steven Michael Klausmeyer (Wichita, Kan.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric aircraft includes a forward wing and an aft wing both located on a top side of a fuselage and both having an upward dihedral angle. The forward wing has a straight or slightly forward-swept leading edge. The aft wing has a swept leading edge. A plurality of propeller engines are located on a leading-edge side of the forward wing. A single propeller...