US Patent Issued to Wisk Aero on Aug. 25 for "Compact vertiport with efficient space utilization" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,715,614, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Wisk Aero LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Compact vertiport with efficient space utilization" was invented by James Joseph Tighe (San Jose, Calif.), Geoffrey Alan Long (Montara, Calif.) and Uri Tzarnotzky (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments provide a compact vertiport system. The vertiport system may be efficient and compact by combining, into one space and time period, multiple activities that typically take place in different spaces and different times. For example, when an aircraft is being moved from a landing zone to a takeoff zone, the aircraft may also be charged ...