US Patent Issued to THE BOEING on Sept. 1 for "Payload lift apparatus for vehicles" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,722,782, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to THE BOEING COMPANY (Arlington, Va.).

"Payload lift apparatus for vehicles" was invented by Samuel Adam Schweighart (Fairfax, Va.) and Daniel Vincent Uhlig (Warrenton, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Payload lift apparatus for vehicles are disclosed. A lift vehicle includes a frame, a plurality of rotors supported by the frame, and a plurality of first pulleys coupled to the frame. Pairs of pulleys from the plurality of first pulleys are coupled underneath respective ones of the rotors. A plurality of second pulleys is spaced from the frame, where respective ones of the second pulleys are ass...