US Patent Issued to Textron Innovations on Nov. 4 for "Rotor system with belt driven propulsion and stowing" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,681, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Textron Innovations Inc. (Providence, R.I.).

"Rotor system with belt driven propulsion and stowing" was invented by Kirk Landon Groninga (Keller, Texas) and Brent Chadwick Ross (Flower Mound, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle includes a first rotor system having a rotor blade having an axis of rotation, a rotatable inboard drive component, and a rotatable outboard drive component. The first rotor system further includes a flexible closed loop component associated with each of the inboard drive component and the outboard drive component. Movement of the closed loop component can selec...