US Patent Issued to Textron Innovations on June 24 for "Telescoping tail assemblies for use on aircraft" (Texas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,337,960, issued on June 24, was assigned to Textron Innovations Inc. (Providence, R.I.).

"Telescoping tail assemblies for use on aircraft" was invented by Steven Ryan Schafer (Fort Worth, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A telescoping tail assembly for use on an aircraft that has a fore-aft length. The telescoping tail assembly includes a housing extending in an aftward direction and a tailboom slidable along the housing into various positions including an extended position and a retracted position. A jackscrew is coupled to the tailboom. An actuator is coupled to the jackscrew and is configured to selectively rotate the jackscrew to...