US Patent Issued to AIRBUS OPERATIONS on July 1 for "Aircraft nose landing gear assembly" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,368, issued on July 1, was assigned to AIRBUS OPERATIONS Ltd. (Bristol, Great Britain).

"Aircraft nose landing gear assembly" was invented by Fraser Wilson (Bristol, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aircraft nose landing gear assembly is disclosed including two wheels, motors, brakes, and a controller. The wheels are separated by a steering axis and independently rotatable about a rotation axis in a rotation direction. The motors and brakes are each arranged to selectively engage a respective wheel. The motors and brakes supplement and resist rotation of the respective wheel in the rotation direction, respectively. On t...