ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,286,218, issued on April 29, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).
"Landing gear system with magnetorheological damper" was invented by Choung Hyoung Kim (Anyang-si, South Korea), Jung Hyun Lee (Gunpo-si, South Korea) and Eugene Hwang (Seongnam-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A landing gear system may include: a casing coupled to a fuselage of an aircraft, such as an urban air mobility vehicle; a steering, one side of which is inserted into the casing and the other side of which is connected to a tire; a magnetorheological (MR) damper including a cylinder coupled to the c...