ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,552,544, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Textron Innovations Inc. (Providence, R.I.).
"Gear reaction derived torque measurement" was invented by Austin Thomas Mcintire (Fort Worth, Texas), Brian Joseph Roppolo (Fort Worth, Texas) and Eric Stephen Olson (Fort Worth, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rotorcraft propulsion system includes a mast coupled to a rotor assembly, a gear coupled to the mast, the gear during use producing an axial reaction force, a flexure shaft extending from the gear, where the flexure shaft does not rotate with the gear and the flexure shaft flexes in response to radial loads from the gear, and a load ce...