US Patent Issued to Textron Innovations on April 22 for "Pneumo-mechanical landing gear deployment system and method" (Kansas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,280,866, issued on April 22, was assigned to Textron Innovations Inc. (Providence, R.I.).

"Pneumo-mechanical landing gear deployment system and method" was invented by Donald Edward Hill (Wichita, Kan.), Michael R. DePinto (Wichita, Kan.), Matthew J. Allmond (Wichita, Kan.), Michael Troy Heeren (Wichita, Kan.) and Dennis Scarberry (Wichita, Kan.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pneumo-mechanical landing gear deployment system includes a dual-stage handle operatively connected to a pressurized tank, a nose landing gear pneumatically connected to the pressurized tank, and a main landing gear pneumatically connected to the pressurized tank. ...