ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,320,392, issued on June 3, was assigned to Textron Innovations Inc. (Providence, R.I.).
"Clutched centrifugal force bearing" was invented by Kyle Cravener (Arlington, Texas), Andrew Harloff (Fort Worth, Texas) and Andrew Maresh (Colleyville, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An elastomeric bearing has a first end interface, a second end interface, an activation element disposed between the first end interface and the second end interface, and a clutch component disposed between the activation element and the second end interface. A method of operating an elastomeric bearing includes providing a first end interface, providing a second e...