US Patent Issued to Textron Innovations on Oct. 7 for "Electric tiltrotor aircraft with fixed motors" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,823, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Textron Innovations Inc. (Providence, R.I.).

"Electric tiltrotor aircraft with fixed motors" 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 a rotor assembly comprising a plurality of rotor blades connected to a rotor mast, wherein the rotor assembly is tiltable relative to a wing of the aircraft between a first position corresponding to an airplane mode of the aircraft and a second posit...