US Patent Issued to Wisk Aero on May 27 for "Blade pitch coupled to propulsion system tilt" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,312,075, issued on May 27, was assigned to Wisk Aero LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Blade pitch coupled to propulsion system tilt" was invented by Geoffrey Alan Long (Montara, Calif.), Chase Nichols (Kirkland, Wash.) and Patrick Kelly (Clarksburg, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments provide mechanisms for coupling rotor blade pitch to propulsion system tilt angle in an aircraft, and more specifically in electric aircrafts. A system may include a tiltable propulsion system configured to move between a first tilt angle and a second tilt angle, wherein the tiltable propulsion system includes a plurality of rotor blades each con...