US Patent Issued to The Boeing on June 17 for "Multi-stage evacuation systems and methods for aircraft" (Washington, Idaho Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,797, issued on June 17, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Multi-stage evacuation systems and methods for aircraft" was invented by Angela Noelani Cruz (Seattle), Mark Edward King (Rigby, Idaho) and Steven Philip McDonald (Marysville, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An emergency evacuation system includes a first floatation device, an inflator operably coupled to the first floatation device, and a second floatation device coupled to the first floatation device. The inflator is configured to inflate the first floatation device to deploy the emergency evacuation system outside of a compartment, such as proximate to ...