US Patent Issued to The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army on May 5 for "Fast response rotor system" (Maryland Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,617,526, issued on May 5, was assigned to The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington).

"Fast response rotor system" was invented by Jean-Paul Francis Reddinger (Baltimore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rotor system comprising a hinge coupled between a rotor blade and a hub, where the hinge comprises a pivot that is angled relative to a rotor axis of rotation to enable pitch of the rotor blade to change when the rotor blade experiences lag. The angle of the pivot controls an amount of pitch that results in response to an amount of lag."

The patent was filed on Oct. 1, 2021, under Application No. ...