US Patent Issued to Textron Innovations on Oct. 20 for "Damage detection for aircraft parts" (Texas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,768,437, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Textron Innovations Inc. (Providence, R.I.).

"Damage detection for aircraft parts" was invented by Tyson Henry (Arlington, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One embodiment is a rotorcraft including a rotor system, and a transmission system for providing rotational power to the rotor system. The transmission system includes a housing, and a planetary pinion gear disposed in the housing. The rotorcraft further includes a system for detecting damage includes a break wire embedded in the planetary pinion gear, the break wire configured to break when a crack develops in the planetary pinion gear ...