US Patent Issued to Textron Innovations on Sept. 1 for "Systems and methods for manufacturing a hollow multi-blade rotor" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,722,349, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Textron Innovations Inc. (Providence, R.I.).

"Systems and methods for manufacturing a hollow multi-blade rotor" was invented by Francois Landry (St-Hippolyte, Canada), Olivier Blanc (Pointe-Calumet, Canada), Daniel Poirier (Mirabel, Canada) and Joffrey Renaud (Montreal).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for manufacturing a hollow multi-blade rotor includes a manifold having upper and lower manifold sections. The upper manifold section includes sealing ports that include sealing rings. The lower manifold section includes sealing port apertures that are configured to accept the sealing ports...