US Patent Issued to Wisk Aero on May 5 for "Scissoring mechanisms deploying at low speed" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,617,527, issued on May 5, was assigned to Wisk Aero LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Scissoring mechanisms deploying at low speed" was invented by Geoffrey Alan Long (Montara, Calif.), Chase Nichols (Kirkland, Wash.) and Patrick Kelly (Clarksburg, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments provide scissoring mechanisms for a vertical lift fan of an electric aircraft (e.g., a vertical take-off-landing eVTOL aircraft) where the blades of the vertical lift fan can be opened at almost zero speed. Exemplary scissoring mechanisms have position locking features that keep the collapsed blades in the low drag orientation once closed (e.g., in t...