ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,421,765, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to BOMBARDIER INC. (Dorval, Canada).
"System for latching and locking an aircraft door" was invented by John Richard Savidge (Sooke, Canada), Peter Lyver (Beaconsfield, Canada), Jean-Philippe Demers (Verdun, Canada), David Riviere (Laval, Canada), Remi Crozier (Montreal, Canada) and Patrick Serres (Montreal, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems for latching and locking an aircraft door and associated methods are disclosed. The system comprises a latch and a lock. The latch can be configurable between: a latched configuration where the latch interferes with a lift mechanism for causing l...