US Patent Issued to Textron Innovations on Aug. 25 for "Gimbal lock systems having rotatable hub locks" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,715,579, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Textron Innovations Inc. (Providence, R.I.).

"Gimbal lock systems having rotatable hub locks" was invented by Andrew William Harloff (North Richland Hills, Texas), Andrew Ryan Maresh (Lewisville, Texas), Bryan Kenneth Baskin (Arlington, Texas), Kyle Thomas Cravener (Watauga, Texas) and Marco Antonio Agredano (Corinth, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A propulsion system for a rotorcraft includes a mast having an axis of rotation. A hub assembly is coupled to and rotatable with the mast. The hub assembly has a gimballing degree of freedom relative to the mast. A gimbal lock system is positio...