ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,824, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to LEONARDO S.P.A. (Rome).
"Rotor for an aircraft capable of hovering" was invented by Luigi Bottasso (Samarate, Italy), Stefano Poggi (Samarate, Italy), Phil Woody (Samarate, Italy), Fabrizio Losi (Samarate, Italy), Alessandro Nava (Samarate, Italy), Sergio Sartori (Samarate, Italy), Roberto Simonetta (Samarate, Italy), Alessandro Airoldi (Samarate, Italy) and Matteo Boiocchi (Samarate, Italy).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rotor for an aircraft is described, comprising an input shaft rotatable around a first axis; an output member rotatable around a second axis; a coupling element functionally in...