US Patent Issued to Textron Innovations on July 22 for "Multi-material ducted rotor blade tip extension" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,365,453, issued on July 22, was assigned to Textron Innovations Inc. (Providence, R.I.).

"Multi-material ducted rotor blade tip extension" was invented by George Matthew Thompson (Lewisville, Texas), Jonathan Andrew Knoll (Burleson, Texas), Robert Glenn Vaughn (Keller, Texas) and William Anthony Amante (Grapevine, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rotor system is provided in one example embodiment and may include a rotor duct; at least one rotor blade, wherein the at least one rotor blade comprises a tip end; and a multi-material tip extension affixed at the tip end of the at least one rotor blade, wherein the multi-material tip ext...