ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,251, issued on June 23, was assigned to Vertical Aerospace Group Ltd (Bristol, Great Britain).
"Electric aircraft" was invented by James Edwin Peck (Bristol, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein is an electric aircraft comprising a battery pack to power the aircraft. The battery pack comprises a housing, an arrangement of battery cells within the housing and a crumple structure associated with the battery pack. The crumple structure is beneath the arrangement of battery cells and is adapted to compress in the event of an impact from beneath the aircraft. A venting channel is fluidically coupled to the battery...