US Patent Issued to Textron Innovations on Sept. 16 for "Electrically isolated auxiliary flight controllers for rotorcraft" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,415,601, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Textron Innovations Inc. (Providence, R.I.).

"Electrically isolated auxiliary flight controllers for rotorcraft" was invented by Joshua Andrew Emrich (Grapevine, Texas), David Outhwaite (Saint Sauveur, Canada), Christopher Dunlop (Westmount, Canada) and Mitchell Lichocki (Dollard-des-Ormeaux, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rotorcraft includes a fuselage, a flight control computer, an auxiliary flight controller having one or more flight control inputs in the noncockpit section of the fuselage and a relay interposed between the flight control computer and the auxiliary flight controll...