US Patent Issued to Textron Aviation on Sept. 30 for "Handle assembly for escape hatch" (Kansas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,428,870, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Textron Aviation Inc. (Providence, R.I.).

"Handle assembly for escape hatch" was invented by Michael Clinton Lay (Sedgwick, Kan.), Evan M. Johnson (Wichita, Kan.), Isaac Anthony Hoetmer (Wichita, Kan.), Joel Allen Pegg (Wichita, Kan.) and Edward Donald Harrison (Hutchinson, Kan.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A handle assembly for an escape hatch. A handle assembly for an escape hatch comprises an interior handle and an exterior handle. The interior handle has an interior cam associated therewith and the exterior handle has an exterior cam associated therewith. The interior cam and the exteri...