US Patent Issued to Textron Innovations on July 14 for "Modular tandem tiltrotor aircraft" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,535, issued on July 14, was assigned to Textron Innovations Inc. (Providence, R.I.).

"Modular tandem tiltrotor aircraft" was invented by John Robert Wittmaak Jr. (Newark, Texas), Steven M. Loveland (Fort Worth, Texas), Joshua Allan Edler (Bedford, Texas), Alan Hisashi Steinert (Fort Worth, Texas), Stephen Yibum Chung (Keller, Texas) and Matthew Edward Louis (Fort Worth, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A modular tandem tiltrotor aircraft in which the tiltrotor assemblies are operably coupled at the forward and aft ends of the fuselage of the aircraft is disclosed. The modular tandem tiltrotor assemblies are capable of rotating be...