US Patent Issued to Lord on Dec. 30 for "Force generator with center attachment and/or redundant attachment points" (Pennsylvania, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,509,221, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Lord Corp. (Cary, N.C.).

"Force generator with center attachment and/or redundant attachment points" was invented by Gerald P Whiteford (Waterford, Pa.), Sean A Coots (Durham, N.C.), Douglas A Swanson (Cary, N.C.), John L Sheppard (New Hill, N.C.), Michael D Janowski (Clayton, N.C.) and Douglas C Leicht (Cranesvile, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides an improved circular force generator having a housing configured to reduce vibrational forces transmitted to an aircraft structure. Additionally, the disclosed configuration provide the necessary safety redundancies ...