ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,698,079, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Textron Innovations Inc. (Providence, R.I.).
"Pylon tracking systems for tiltrotor aircraft" was invented by Jacob Eugene Augustyn (Grapevine, Texas), Evan Butler Bennett (Greenfield, Wis.), Charles Eric Covington (Colleyville, Texas) and Thomas Earl Johnson Jr. (Dallas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pylon tracking system for a tiltrotor aircraft includes first and second pylons each having a mechanically redundant pylon conversion actuator with first and second drive systems. A position sensor system includes a first rotary position sensor coupled to the first drive system of the first pylon, ...