This changes everything.
From the US patent examiner's initial findings I appear to be in good company, as it cites prior art from Stellantis and Kitty Hawk: an Italian mobility behemoth founded by FIAT and a developer of such solutions by relative unknowns called Google and Boeing.
The notion of flying people in pods sandwiched by propellers is nixed by Stellantis, whose project predated drones and so comprises just two propellers. Meantimes the examiner rejects as original any arrangement of spars you may feel is the 'sliced bread' of mounting motors for flight.
Rising from the ashes of the report like a Phoenix however is a means of flight able to rise under its own power around a transporter, and so beam you up like Captain Kirk.
With this we may yet secure the monopoly on such means across the whole of the US.
Mwah ha, mwah ha, mwah ha ha ha HA HA HA!
