US Patent Issued to Textron Innovations on March 11 for "Thrust vectoring pylon arrangement and method therefor" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,246,819, issued on March 11, was assigned to Textron Innovations Inc. (Providence, R.I.).

"Thrust vectoring pylon arrangement and method therefor" was invented by Kirk L. Groninga (Keller, Texas) and Danielle L. Edwards (Grapevine, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rotating pylon assembly for aircraft thrust vectoring control. In embodiments, the rotating pylon assembly of embodiments includes a rotating sleeve disposed within a fixed boom of the aircraft, and configured to support a rotor assembly. The rotating pylon assembly includes a bearing assembly configured to functionally couple the rotating sleeve against an inner surface...