ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,919, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to TEXTRON INNOVATIONS INC. (Providence, R.I.).
"Pylon restraint system" was invented by Peter Quinn Romano (Fort Worth, Texas), Jedediah Bryce Goodell (North Richland Hills, Texas), Joshua Andrew Emrich (Grapevine, Texas) and Michael S. Seifert (Southlake, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an embodiment, a rotorcraft includes an airframe; a main rotor transmission; one or more brackets mounting the main rotor transmission to the airframe, longitudinal axes of the one or more brackets being substantially parallel with a longitudinal axis of the rotorcraft; and one or more restraints mounti...