US Patent Issued to Archer Aviation on May 26 for "Redundant load path for a tiltable aircraft component" (Washington, Alabama Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,637,211, issued on May 26, was assigned to Archer Aviation Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Redundant load path for a tiltable aircraft component" was invented by Jonathan Anthony Beno (Bellevue, Wash.), Benjamin Scott Dyer (Huntsville, Ala.) and Nathan Daniel Storrs (Woodinville, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tilting apparatus for an aircraft, comprising: a tiltable aircraft component which tilts between a first and second position, at least one actuator for adjusting a tilt angle of the tiltable aircraft component, and at least one passive damper connected to the tiltable aircraft component and configured to limit a rate of change of ...