US Patent Issued to Textron Innovations on May 27 for "Method and system for controlling rotor speeds of rotor systems" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,312,093, issued on May 27, was assigned to Textron Innovations Inc. (Providence, R.I.).

"Method and system for controlling rotor speeds of rotor systems" was invented by Brad John Roberts (Fort Worth, Texas) and Jonathan A. Wasylyszyn (Keller, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system to control a rotor system includes automatically changing a rotor speed of the rotor system of the tiltrotor aircraft while moving the rotor system from a first position and a first rotor speed to a second position and a second rotor speed over a time period in accordance with an acceleration-rate profile that varies over the time period usin...