US Patent Issued on Sept. 1 for "Airplane passenger parachute system" (Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,722,785, issued on Sept. 1.

"Airplane passenger parachute system" was invented by James Jones (Atlanta) and Kim Jones (Atlanta).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The airplane passenger parachute system includes an aircraft, a plurality of swing-up doors, a plurality of seat pallets, a plurality of tracks, and an activation control. The airplane passenger parachute system may be a safety feature adapted to evacuate a plurality of passengers from the aircraft after the aircraft has been determined to be unsafe to land. Responsive to actuating the activation control, the plurality of swing-up doors may open and the plurality of seat pallets com...