ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,481, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Textron Innovations Inc. (Providence, R.I.).
"Rotor position control system" was invented by Guy Bernard (Kirkland, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An tiltrotor aircraft includes a rotor position control system (RPCS). The RPCS includes an electric motor configured to selectively rotate the rotor blade, a target marker kinematically associated with the rotor blade, a sensor configured to sense a position of the target marker, and a flight control computer configured to selectively control the electric motor in a normal mode of operation in which the rotor blade provides thrust and a phase...