US Patent Issued to SAFRAN LANDING SYSTEMS on Sept. 23 for "Aircraft landing gear provided with a shape sensor" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,916, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to SAFRAN LANDING SYSTEMS (Velizy Villacoublay, France).

"Aircraft landing gear provided with a shape sensor" was invented by Nicolas Nguyen (Moissy-Cramayel, France) and Bertrand Dubacher (Moissy-Cramayel, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aircraft landing gear includes a stationary element and one or more movable elements which can move relative to the stationary element between a first position and a second position, and one or more shape sensors, connected to an electronic processor arranged to deduce the position of the movable element of the shape of the shape sensor. The shape sens...