US Patent Issued to Whisper Aero on Oct. 6 for "Ducted wing with flaps" (Tennessee, Washington, Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,752,906, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Whisper Aero Inc. (Crossville, Tenn.).

"Ducted wing with flaps" was invented by Mark Douglass Moore (Crossville, Tenn.), Ian Andreas Villa (Crossville, Tenn.), Devon Jedamski (Crossville, Tenn.), Andrew Stephen Hahn (Yorktown, Va.), Xiaofan Fei (Bellevue, Wash.) and Aaron Timothy Perry (Crossville, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A ducted wing is configured to be connected to an aircraft. The ducted wing includes an array of integrated jetfoils. Each jetfoil includes a propulsor fan, an upper wing portion, and a lower wing portion that extends past an end of the upper wing portion. Each jetf...