ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,397,904, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to SAFRAN LANDING SYSTEMS UK LTD. (Gloucester, Great Britain).

"Aircraft landing gear assembly comprising a cam surface and a leaf spring, wherein the second end region of the leaf spring comprises a cam follower" was invented by Marcelo Berthoud (Gloucestershire, Great Britain), Leandro Guimaraes Maia (Gloucestershire, Great Britain) and Jorge Juesas Portoles (Gloucestershire, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aircraft landing gear assembly including a first landing gear element movably coupled relative to a second landing gear element to pivot about a pivot axis; a cam surface defi...