US Patent Issued to BOARD OF REGENTS, THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM on Oct. 7 for "Control device and system for rotor blades" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,825, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to BOARD OF REGENTS, THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM (Austin, Texas).

"Control device and system for rotor blades" was invented by Jayant Sirohi (Austin, Texas), Christopher Cameron (Austin, Texas) and Palash Jain (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various implementations include a rotor control device including a shaft extending along a rotational axis, a hub, first and second pitch control components, and a swashplate. The hub has a hub axis and is hingedly coupled to the shaft such that the hub axis is perpendicular to the rotational axis and stationary relative to the shaft. The hub is...