US Patent Issued to Archer Aviation on Oct. 7 for "Systems and methods for controlling rotor tilt for a vertical take-off and landing aircraft" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,826, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Archer Aviation Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for controlling rotor tilt for a vertical take-off and landing aircraft" was invented by Pieter Depape (San Francisco) and Geoffrey C. Bower (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rotor mounting assembly for a vertical take-off and landing aircraft includes a boom configured for mounting to a wing of the aircraft; a mount for mounting a rotor assembly, the mount connected to the boom at a joint and tiltable about the joint from a forward thrust orientation in which the rotor assembly can provide forward thrust for forward ...