US Patent Issued to Wisk Aero on March 31 for "Aircraft with pusher propeller" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,245, issued on March 31, was assigned to Wisk Aero LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Aircraft with pusher propeller" was invented by James Joseph Tighe (San Jose, Calif.), Uri Tzarnotzky (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Geoffrey Alan Long (Montara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments provide an electric aircraft with a plurality of lift fan assemblies that are configured to provide vertical lift, and one or more pusher propellers that are configured to provide forward thrust. The lift fan assemblies may be coupled to the wings of the aircraft via one or more support structures, and the wings may be coupled to an upper region of the...