US Patent Issued to Lockheed Martin on March 17 for "Helicopter pitch controls" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,964, issued on March 17, was assigned to Lockheed Martin Corp. (Bethesda, Md.).

"Helicopter pitch controls" was invented by Zachary Scott Poster (Arlington, Texas), William Wolcott (Burleson, Texas) and Ryan Lee Robinson (Aledo, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rotary-wing aircraft may include a rotor system comprising, a gear module including, a servo having an output shaft linearly moveable along a second axis, a rotating pitch change shaft that rotates about the second axis, a pitch change assembly for coupling linear movement of the output shaft to rotational movement of the pitch change shaft, the pitch change assembly in...