US Patent Issued to SAFRAN LANDING SYSTEMS, SAFRAN ELECTRICAL COMPONENTS on Nov. 11 for "Device for rotating an aircraft wheel" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,466,550, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to SAFRAN LANDING SYSTEMS (Velizy-Villacoublay, France) and SAFRAN ELECTRICAL COMPONENTS (Loches, France).

"Device for rotating an aircraft wheel" was invented by Thierry Blanpain (Moissy-Cramayel, France), Didier Brun (Moissy-Cramayel, France), Olivier Piqueux (Moissy-Cramayel, France) and Stephane Basset (Moissy-Cramayel, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A landing gear for an aircraft having an axle carried by a strut, the axle including a rotatably-mounted wheel and a drive device for rotating the wheel about a rotation axis. The drive device can have a motor mounted at one end of the axle...