US Patent Issued to Airbus Operations on June 24 for "Pintle support and method of installing a landing gear assembly" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,337,997, issued on June 24, was assigned to Airbus Operations Ltd. (Bristol, Great Britain).

"Pintle support and method of installing a landing gear assembly" was invented by Dominique Chasteau (Bristol, Great Britain), Guilherme Barsali (Bristol, Great Britain), James Barnes (Bristol, Great Britain) and Christopher James Perkins (Bristol, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A temporary pintle support which can attach between upper prongs of a landing gear, and which is arranged to hold pintle pins prior to installation of the landing gear assembly at an aircraft. The pintle support is attached at the landing gear to align the p...