ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,016, issued on April 29, was assigned to SAFRAN LANDING SYSTEMS (Velizy-Villacoublay, France) and SAFRAN LANDING SYSTEMS CANADA INC. (Ajax, Canada).

"Brake assembly with contained brake environment" was invented by Graeme Peter Arthur Klim (Velizy-Villacoublay, France), Justin Guang Yuang Cheng (Waterloo, Canada), Leszek Marian Dacko (Toronto) and Andrew Michael Ellis (Guelph, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A brake assembly is configured for use with a wheel in an ambient environment. The wheel includes a rim rotatably mounted to an axle. The brake assembly includes a brake stack and an actuation assembly configured to selectiv...