US Patent Issued to THE BOEING on Nov. 11 for "Chock for steering mechanism of an aircraft nose landing gear" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,466,581, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to THE BOEING COMPANY (Arlington, Va.).

"Chock for steering mechanism of an aircraft nose landing gear" was invented by Nicholas Toon (Kirkland, Wash.), Lance Joseph Bakken (Mukilteo, Wash.), Andrew Henry Adams (Shoreline, Wash.) and Brian A. Harr (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device to engage with a steering mechanism of a nose landing gear of an aircraft to limit steering rotation of the nose landing gear. The device includes a first chock sized to fit within a first space formed in the nose landing gear at a first cylinder of a steering mechanism, and a second chock sized to fit wit...