US Patent Issued to Lockheed Martin on Dec. 16 for "Tip end joint arrangement for a rotor blade with reconfigurable attributes for structural and aerodynamic tuning" (Connecticut, Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,497,166, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Lockheed Martin Corp. (Bethesda, Md.).

"Tip end joint arrangement for a rotor blade with reconfigurable attributes for structural and aerodynamic tuning" was invented by Timothy James Conti (Shelton, Conn.), Eric S. Parsons (Middlebury, Conn.), Joshua A. Breon (Lafayette, Ind.), Benjamin E. Isabella (Hamden, Conn.), William Paul Adams (Norwalk, Conn.), Christopher Michael Colschen (Hamden, Conn.), Daniel Caleb Sargent (Easton, Conn.) and Joseph Pantalone III (Guilford, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rotor blade configured to couple to a rotor assembly having an axis of rotation includes...