US Patent Issued to Textron Innovations on Feb. 17 for "Proprotor lockout systems for tiltrotor aircraft" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,552,528, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Textron Innovations Inc. (Providence, R.I.).

"Proprotor lockout systems for tiltrotor aircraft" was invented by Grant Michael Beall (Plano, Texas), Kyle Thomas Cravener (Watauga, Texas), Brady Garrett Atkins (Euless, Texas) and Gilberto Morales (Arlington, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lockout system for an aircraft having a rotor assembly. The lockout system includes a drive shaft coupled to and rotatable with the rotor assembly, a nonrotating airframe structure disposed proximate the drive shaft and a lock assembly having first and second lock members. The first lock member is rotata...