ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,615, issued on July 15, was assigned to Safran Landing Systems Canada Inc. (Ajax, Canada).
"Pyrotechnic wheel acceleration system" was invented by Robert Kyle Schmidt (Brooklin, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Wheel acceleration systems are disclosed that provide a motive force to at least one wheel of an aircraft, in order to accelerate the aircraft to takeoff speed with the assistance of main engine thrust. The wheel acceleration system includes a pyrotechnic unit configured to generate expanding gases by combusting a propellant, and a rotary propulsion unit pneumatically coupled to the pyrotechnic unit. The rotary propulsion...