US Patent Issued to Anduril Industries on April 14 for "Blade manufacturing for vertical take-off dual-engine aircraft" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,600,459, issued on April 14, was assigned to Anduril Industries Inc. (Costa Mesa, Calif.).

"Blade manufacturing for vertical take-off dual-engine aircraft" was invented by Zhe Kevin Wang (Costa Mesa, Calif.) and Jessica Rader (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rotor system for an aircraft that includes one or more rotor blades respectively connected to the rotor via a blade cuff, and a method of manufacturing the rotor system is disclosed. The rotor system includes (i) a blade cuff coupled to a blade, wherein a distal end diameter of the blade cuff is larger in diameter than a middle portion diameter of the blade cuff, and (ii)...