US Patent Issued to Archer Aviation on Feb. 3 for "Systems and methods for oil maintenance in gearboxes for eVTOL aircraft" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,539,973, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Archer Aviation Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for oil maintenance in gearboxes for eVTOL aircraft" was invented by Scott Graves (Felton, Calif.) and Robert Wayne Moore (Auburn, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A motor assembly for a propulsion system, the motor assembly including a motor housing; a rotor; a power inverter; a main shaft; wherein the main shaft extends through the rotor; and a fluid distribution system including a fluid reservoir; a pump configured to distribute a fluid to a component of the motor assembly; and a filter having a circumferential side, wherein th...