US Patent Issued to SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES on Sept. 16 for "Propeller for a turbine engine of an aircraft with a variable-pitch vane and a geared counterweight device" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,415,597, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES (Paris).

"Propeller for a turbine engine of an aircraft with a variable-pitch vane and a geared counterweight device" was invented by Ceddric Beljambe (Moissy-Cramayel, France), Clement Cottet (Moissy-Cramayel, France), Jean Charles Olivier Roda (Moissy-Cramayel, France) and Kevin Franck Jacques Tribout (Moissy-Cramayel, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An assembly for a propeller of a turbine engine of an aircraft is provided. The assembly includes a variable-pitch vane having a blade connected to a root, the vane having a longitudinal axis aligned with a vane pi...