US Patent Issued to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Toyota Jidosha on Sept. 29 for "Cable routing through rotatable-wing aircraft spars" (Virginia, Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,747,033, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America Inc. (Plano, Texas) and Toyota Jidosha K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Cable routing through rotatable-wing aircraft spars" was invented by Tom M. Neuman (Fairfax, Va.), Matthew M Warren (Silver Spring, Md.) and Frank K. Kozel (Glen Burnie, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cable routing system described herein relates to facilitating the rotation of wings and a fuselage of a rotatable-wing aircraft via a load transfer structure. In one embodiment, the cable routing system includes a first hollow shaft extending through a first wing attached to...