US Patent Issued to Honeywell International on March 31 for "Method and system of automatic warnings and guidance for avoiding loss of tail rotor effectiveness on a rotorcraft" (Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,862, issued on March 31, was assigned to Honeywell International Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Method and system of automatic warnings and guidance for avoiding loss of tail rotor effectiveness on a rotorcraft" was invented by Murali Mohan Talapureddi (Peoria, Ariz.) and Michael Popescu (Phoenix).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for responding to loss of tail rotor effectiveness (LTE) on a rotorcraft having a tail rotor includes detecting an actual or predicted LTE, and determining a lateral LTE area relative to a position of the rotorcraft that is associated with the LTE. In response to the determination of the lateral LTE area, t...