US Patent Issued to The Johns Hopkins University on July 14 for "Fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicle capable of high angle-of-attack maneuvering" (Maryland, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,568, issued on July 14, was assigned to The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore).

"Fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicle capable of high angle-of-attack maneuvering" was invented by Joseph L. Moore (Finksburg, Md.), Max R. Basescu (Columbia, Md.), Adam C. Polevoy (Columbia, Md.), Bryanna Y. Yeh (Hanover, Md.), Luca Scheuer (Philadelphia) and Kevin C. Wolfe (Lutherville, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) includes a propeller gimbal operably coupled to the body of the UAV at the forward end and the propeller gimbal is configured to pivot the propeller about a gimbal pivot axis to change a propel...