ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,365,451, issued on July 22, was assigned to SAAFRAN LANDING SYSTEMS UK LTD. (Gloucester, Great Britain).
"Aircraft landing gear shock absorber strut" was invented by Ian Robert Bennett (Gloucester, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aircraft landing gear shock absorber strut including an outer cylinder having a bore defining an opening; an inner cylinder having a first end region movably coupled within the bore and a second end region which projects out of the opening. The inner cylinder being arranged to move along a longitudinal axis of the bore between a first condition and a second condition and is biased by a spring for...