US Patent Issued to TEXTRON INNOVATIONS on July 29 for "Error monitors for collective and cyclic sticks" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,371,153, issued on July 29, was assigned to TEXTRON INNOVATIONS INC. (Providence, R.I.).

"Error monitors for collective and cyclic sticks" was invented by Jillian Samantha Alfred (Ft. Worth, Texas), Lan Nam Hoang (Keller, Texas) and Clifton Lee Harrell (Arlington, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an embodiment, a rotorcraft includes a control element; a first detent sensor connected to the control element, the first detent sensor being operable to generate detent slip rate data indicating movement of the control element and detent state data indicating pilot control of the control element; a first trim motor connected to the contr...