US Patent Issued to Textron Innovations on Oct. 21 for "Method and system for inverse-tapered high-speed rotors" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,448,111, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Textron Innovations Inc. (Providence, R.I.).

"Method and system for inverse-tapered high-speed rotors" was invented by Albert G. Brand (North Richland Hills, Texas), Andrew Thomas Carter (Richland Hills, Texas), Matthew J. Hill (Keller, Texas), Brian Erik Barnes (Bedford, Texas), Paul Sherrill (Grapevine, Texas), Bryan Huber (Keller, Texas) and Madeline Kvaka (Grand Prairie, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of designing a rotor blade for a rotary aircraft includes establishing a target thrust-weighted solidity of the rotor blade, calculating a reverse flow circle of the rotor blade...