US Patent Issued to Textron Innovations on June 10 for "LED tail rotor safety and status indication lighting system" (Texas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,325,514, issued on June 10, was assigned to Textron Innovations Inc. (Providence, R.I.).

"LED tail rotor safety and status indication lighting system" was invented by Mathew Chapdelaine (Fort Worth, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One embodiment is a rotorcraft comprising a fuselage; an empennage at an aft end of the fuselage; a tail rotor connected to the empennage; and a tail rotor guard (TRG) around the tail rotor, the TRG shrouding to the tail rotor; and a light emitting diode (LED) lighting element integrated into at least one surface of the TRG."

The patent was filed on March 30, 2023, under Application No. 18/193,217.

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