US Patent Issued to Lockheed Martin on Feb. 4 for "Tip end joint arrangement for a rotor blade with reconfigurable attributes for structural and aerodynamic tuning" (Connecticut, Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,214,872, issued on Feb. 4, 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.) and Christopher Michael Colschen (Hamden, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rotor blade configured to be installed on a rotary-wing aircraft includes a main blade body including an inboard end configured to be coupled to a rotor blade hub and a...