US Patent Issued to Textron Innovations on Oct. 7 for "Dynamically tuned tail assemblies for rotorcraft" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,809, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Textron Innovations Inc. (Providence, R.I.).

"Dynamically tuned tail assemblies for rotorcraft" was invented by Manuel Adrian Gonzalez (Plano, Texas), George Ryan Decker (Fort Worth, Texas) and Robert Anthony Veltre III (Irving, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tail assembly for a rotorcraft having a fuselage and a rotor assembly that generates first and second excitation frequencies. The tail assembly includes a stabilizer having an aft spar and a forward spar. An aft joint couples the aft spar to the fuselage and defines a pitch axis such that the aft joint allows the stabilizer to pivot ...