US Patent Issued to Textron Aviation on June 23 for "Push button reconfiguration for rudder pedal" (Kansas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,238, issued on June 23, was assigned to Textron Aviation Inc. (Wichita, Kan.).

"Push button reconfiguration for rudder pedal" was invented by Levi Raymond Goin (Wichita, Kan.), Ronald Jay Parker (Wichita, Kan.) and John Edward Reimer (Wichita, Kan.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aircraft rudder control system having one or more rudder pedal adjustment systems, each including a rudder pedal actuatable to control movement of a rudder, and further including a support frame component, a rudder pedal arm, a pin, a pin receiving component, a first lever, a second lever, and/or a solenoid. The rudder pedal arm is rotatably attached to th...