US Patent Issued to RATIER-FIGEAC on July 14 for "Electronically piloted low pitch stop protection" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,680,457, issued on July 14, was assigned to RATIER-FIGEAC SAS (Figeac, France).

"Electronically piloted low pitch stop protection" was invented by Thibaut Marger (Beduer, France) and Romain Bouloc (Figeac, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A blade pitch control and protection system for a propeller includes: an actuator where displacement of said actuator corresponds to a change in blade pitch of said propeller; an electronic unit, a position control sensor configured to interact with said actuator. The position control sensor detects actuator position and thereby said blade pitch of said propeller, and to send a control feedback sig...