ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,338,779, issued on June 24, was assigned to INDUSTRIA DE TURBO PROPULSORES S.A.U. (Vizcaya, Spain).
"Actuation mechanism" was invented by Alberto Gomez Garcia (Vizcaya, Spain), Ibon Ortiz De Zarate Etxeandia (Vizcaya, Spain) and Mikel Diez Celaya (Vizcaya, Spain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention belongs to the technical field of gas turbine engines used as propulsion systems for supersonic aircraft. In particular, the invention relates to thrust vectoring convergent-divergent nozzles and, more in particular, to an actuation mechanism for vectoring said variable geometry nozzle."
The patent was filed on July 10, 2024, ...