US Patent Issued to Blue Origin Manufacturing on Dec. 9 for "Reduction of asymmetrical loading in parachute inflation" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,492,004, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Blue Origin Manufacturing LLC (Huntsville, Ala.).

"Reduction of asymmetrical loading in parachute inflation" was invented by Robert James Sinclair (Costa Mesa, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for a parachute or parachute system are described. The parachute or parachute system includes two or more panels and includes at least one band which may be in a lateral direction relative to the two or more panels. The at least one band may be secured at different points which are lateral mid-points in individual contiguous ones of the two or more panels. Further, a first distance ...