ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,466,549, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to AIRBUS OPERATIONS Ltd. (Bristol, Great Britain).
"Aircraft landing gear assembly" was invented by Benjamin Bishop (Bristol, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aircraft landing gear assembly is disclosed including a leg assembly having a trailing arm configured to rotate about an axis and carry a wheel, a shock absorber coupled to the arm and enabled to dampen rotation of the arm about the axis within a normal operating range, and to limit the rotation of the arm about the first trailing arm axis to the normal operating range, and a fuse member coupled to the shock absorber. The fus...