US Patent Issued to AIRBUS OPERATIONS, AIRBUS OPERATIONS (SAS) on Aug. 19 for "Aircraft landing gear with noise reduction front and rear shaped elements" (French, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,391,370, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to AIRBUS OPERATIONS Ltd. (Bristol, Great Britain) and AIRBUS OPERATIONS (SAS) (Toulouse, France).

"Aircraft landing gear with noise reduction front and rear shaped elements" was invented by Jerome Huber (Toulouse, France), Aline Scotto (Toulouse, France), Maxime Itasse (Toulouse, France) and Robert Northam (Bristol, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aircraft landing gear 100 includes a structural main leg 110, having a substantially circular cross-section and defining a front side for facing upstream in use and a rear side for facing downstream in use. The landing gear includes a sh...