US Patent Issued to Joby Aero on Jan. 27 for "Compact blade pitch mechanism and aircraft using same" (California, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,010, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Joby Aero Inc. (Santa Cruz, Calif.).

"Compact blade pitch mechanism and aircraft using same" was invented by Rob Thodal (Santa Cruz, Calif.), Baixi Pei (Newark, Calif.), Joachim L. Grenestedt (Hellertown, Pa.) and Mallory Snowden (Santa Cruz, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A propeller blade pitch control mechanism configured to adjust and control the blade pitch of the blades of a multi-blade propeller simultaneously. The pitch control mechanism may have a pitch plate which is raised or lowered along a liner path along an axial direction using a linear drive, which may be a power screw. ...