US Patent Issued to THE BOEING on Aug. 4 for "Aircraft with overwing engine position" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,698,086, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to THE BOEING COMPANY (Arlington, Va.).

"Aircraft with overwing engine position" was invented by Donald Thomas Powell (Everett, Wash.), Sean Howe (Edmonds, Wash.), Kyle David Stevens (Mill Creek, Wash.) and Druh Saul Palma (Mill Creek, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aircraft that includes a fuselage, right and left wings coupled to the fuselage, struts that are connected to and that extend outward from an underside of the wings, and engines mounted to the struts. The struts are configured to locate the engines in an overwing position."

The patent was filed on Feb. 1, 2024, under Applicatio...