ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,384,531, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Safran Landing Systems UK Ltd. (Great Britain).
"Landing gear storage and quick servicing solution" was invented by Yann Simonneaux (Gloucester, Great Britain) and Jon Smith (Gloucester, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for pressurizing and depressurizing a shock absorber of an aircraft. More specifically, it relates to a method in which an aircraft weight and ambient temperature are used to calculate a required pressurization level of a shock absorber. As such, the shock absorber may be pressurized to the correct level without applying an iterative approach, greatly reduci...