US Patent Issued to Cirrus Design on March 18 for "Parachute with inflation control and load distributing slider loops" (Minnesota Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,257, issued on March 18, was assigned to Cirrus Design Corp. (Duluth, Minn.).

"Parachute with inflation control and load distributing slider loops" was invented by Anthony D. Kasher (Duluth, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are parachute canopies and sliders for use with parachutes. The parachute canopies can include one or more deformable vent panels that can be used to control an inflation rate of the canopies based on an internal pressure within the canopies. The sliders can include strips that form through holes that have a width that distributes a radial load on suspension lines and allow for the use of low...