US Patent Issued to The Board of Regents for the Oklahoma Agricultural and Mechanical Colleges on Feb. 10 for "Rotary wing aircraft" (Oklahoma Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,445, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to The Board of Regents for the Oklahoma Agricultural and Mechanical Colleges (Stillwater, Okla.).

"Rotary wing aircraft" was invented by Weng Kheong Loh (Stillwater, Okla.) and Jamey D. Jacob (Stillwater, Okla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rotary wing vehicle has a vehicle body. A gimbal assembly mounted to or within the body. A propeller assembly is mounted to the gimbal. The propeller assembly has first and second fixed pitch propellers. The gimbal assembly has a first gimbal rotatable about a first axis and a second gimbal rotatable about a second axis."

The patent was filed on Nov. 4, 20...