US Patent Issued on Sept. 29 for "Aircraft wheel prelanding rotation device and method of use" (Washington Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,747,018, issued on Sept. 29.

"Aircraft wheel prelanding rotation device and method of use" was invented by David Christensen (Bremerton, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aircraft wheel prelanding rotation device for rotating a wheel of an aircraft prior to landing includes a disc, a shell, and a tube. The disc has inner and outer faces. A coupler attached to the disc couples the disc to a hub of the wheel so that the inner face abuts the hub and the axle extends axially through the disc. The shell is bowl shaped and thus has an open face. An opening extends axially into the shell and receives the axle to fixedly attach the shell ...