ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,319,436, issued on June 3.
"Aircraft fuselage lighting pod" was invented by Christian R Nielsen (Palm Coast, Fla.), Olexandr Shepelyuk (Gelnica, Slovak Republic), Oleksii Antoshyn (Pibram VII, Czech Republic), Anton Bondariev (Dobris, Czech Republic), Javier Gordillo Perera (Pribram, Czech Republic) and Oleksandr Golodnik (Gelnica, Slovak Republic).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lighting pod for an aircraft, such as a helicopter. The lighting pod includes aerodynamic housing in which multiple lights are mounted in optimum positions providing efficient lighting and lesser air drag. The lighting pod includes taxi lights, landing lights, sc...