US Patent Issued to Garmin International on March 4 for "Fly-by-wire servo actuator for primary flight control" (Kansas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,240,591, issued on March 4, was assigned to Garmin International Inc. (Olathe, Kan.).

"Fly-by-wire servo actuator for primary flight control" was invented by Perry L. Dinger (Olathe, Kan.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fly-by-wire (FBW) servo actuator may be used for primary flight control for an aircraft. The FBW servo actuator may have an inner output shaft coupled to an output arm that actuates a control surface of the aircraft. A first differential and a second differential may be coupled to the output shaft via a first outer shaft and a second outer shaft, respectively. Two inputs may be provided to each of the two differentials, ...