US Patent Issued to Archer Aviation on Aug. 12 for "Systems and methods for improved gearboxes for EVTOL aircraft" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,384,547, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Archer Aviation Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for improved gearboxes for EVTOL aircraft" was invented by Scott Graves (Felton, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for balancing a rotor of an electric engine, comprising: identifying an axis of rotation of the rotor, determining an imbalance present in the rotor by rotating the rotor about the axis of rotation, wherein determining the imbalance includes rotating the rotor and detecting an amplitude of the imbalance. The method further comprising: calculating an amount of mass to remove at a position along an inner circu...