US Patent Issued to Lockheed Martin on Oct. 21 for "Rotor control for a convertible aircraft" (Connecticut, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,448,121, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Lockheed Martin Corp. (Bethesda, Md.).

"Rotor control for a convertible aircraft" was invented by Erez Eller (Plymouth, Conn.), Timothy F. Lauder (Oxford, Conn.), Richard Thomas Hood (Fairfield, Conn.), Frederick John Miner (Barkhamsted, Conn.) and Brian Anderson (Aledo, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aircraft includes a body having a fuselage and a wing assembly, a main shaft supported for rotation with respect to the body about a rotor axis, and a blade assembly coupled to the main shaft for corotation therewith. The blade assembly includes a rotor hub and a plurality of blades circu...