WingXpand Patents

Patent portfolio assigned to WingXpand (verified via public assignee records). Estimated patent count: 1. St. Louis, MO (country listed 'St' = St. Louis) maker of backpack-portable expandable fixed-wing 'smart plane' drones for defense/disaster/agriculture; founder James Barbieri. Customers/partners: U.S. Army contract (anchor, paying), Raytheon/RTX integration partner, plus U.S. Air Force and Navy engagements per press. has_patents=true: press repeatedly calls the design 'patented' and the underlying collapsible-wing patents (US9371130B1, US9010693B1, granted 2015-2016) name founder James E.D. Barbieri as inventor; note assignee on those patents is CAWTU LLC (founder's entity), not 'WingXpand', so a Google Patents search on the exact company name returns 0 — count reflects the wing patent family attributed to the founder. No direct competitors named on company-controlled sources.