US Patent Issued to RTX on Nov. 4 for "Aircraft vertical stabilizer with moveable propulsion system(s)" (Arizona, Florida, Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,631, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Aircraft vertical stabilizer with moveable propulsion system(s)" was invented by Daniel B. Kupratis (Wallingford, Conn.), Benjamin T. Mylrea (Jupiter, Fla.) and Paul R. Hanrahan (Sedona, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An assembly is provided for an aircraft. This assembly includes a vertical stabilizer, a first turbine engine, a second turbine engine and an actuation system. The vertical stabilizer extends spanwise from a stabilizer base to a stabilizer tip. The vertical stabilizer extends longitudinally from a stabilizer leading edge to a stabilizer trailing...