US Patent Issued to Textron Innovations on Nov. 18 for "Electric tiltrotor aircraft with tilting coaxial motors and gearbox" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,473,083, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Textron Innovations Inc. (Providence, R.I.).

"Electric tiltrotor aircraft with tilting coaxial motors and gearbox" was invented by Jonathan Andrew Knoll (Burleson, Texas), George Matthew Thompson (Lewisville, Texas), Charles Hubert Speller (Flower Mound, Texas) and Grant Michael Beall (Arlington, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rotor system for an aircraft includes an open rotor assembly comprising a plurality of rotor blades connected to a rotor mast via a yoke, wherein the rotor assembly is tiltable between a first position corresponding to an airplane mode and a second position corres...