US Patent Issued to AIRBUS HELICOPTERS DEUTSCHLAND on Sept. 8 for "Rotorcraft with a blade tip illumination system" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,729,012, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to AIRBUS HELICOPTERS DEUTSCHLAND GMBH (Germany).

"Rotorcraft with a blade tip illumination system" was invented by Michael Heckl (Donauworth, Germany) and Julius Vogl (Gersthofen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rotorcraft with a fuselage and a tail boom, comprising: a horizontal stabilizer mounted to the tail boom; rotor blades with rotor blade tips which form a virtual blade tip circle upon rotation around a rotor head; luminescent components provided on the rotor blade tips; and a blade tip illumination device comprising at least one light source integrated into the horizontal stabili...