US Patent Issued to SAFRAN LANDING SYSTEMS on Aug. 5 for "Aircraft landing gear with a motorized wheel selectively positionable relative to a landing gear strut" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,377,968, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to SAFRAN LANDING SYSTEMS (Velizy-Villacoublay, France).

"Aircraft landing gear with a motorized wheel selectively positionable relative to a landing gear strut" was invented by Florent Fortier (Moissy-Cramayel, France), Sebastien Dubois (Moissy-Cramayel, France) and Philippe Henrion (Moissy-Cramayel, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aircraft has an upper portion and a lower portion provided with a first and second axle. The first axle is provided with a braked wheel and the second axle is provided with a motorized wheel. A landing gear of the aircraft includes a main arm pivoting with respe...