US Patent Issued to Airborne Systems NA on Nov. 11 for "Parachute with canopy slits or openings for preventing canopy inversion" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,466,565, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Airborne Systems NA Inc (Pennsauken, N.J.).

"Parachute with canopy slits or openings for preventing canopy inversion" was invented by William Louis Bruce Gargano (Orange, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Parachutes which have a generally circular skirt or hem, such as semi-hemispherical, extended gore, or any variant of axisymmetric parachutes and cruciform parachutes with arms attached are disclosed with a plurality of vertical slits located in a circumferential band adjacent the skirt or hem of the parachute to prevent canopy inversion. During deployment, when the outer portion of the ca...