US Patent Issued to JetZero on May 20 for "Emergency egress in a blended wing body aircraft" (California, Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,304,633, issued on May 20, was assigned to JetZero Inc. (Long Beach, Calif.).

"Emergency egress in a blended wing body aircraft" was invented by Jennifer Whitlock (Zionsville, Ind.), Brendan Kennelly (Fullerton, Calif.) and Mark Allan Page (Orange, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Technologies for providing emergency egress routes for a blended wing body aircraft are described herein. In some examples, the emergency egress routes are through a side cabin bulkhead and aft one or more cargo holds. In some examples, the blended wing body aircraft has wings that are high geometry wings. In these examples, the emergency egress routes do ...