US Patent Issued to AIRBUS HELICOPTERS DEUTSCHLAND on Sept. 1 for "Collapsible self-supporting human and/or non-human cargo transport device" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,722,781, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to AIRBUS HELICOPTERS DEUTSCHLAND GMBH (Donauworth, Germany).

"Collapsible self-supporting human and/or non-human cargo transport device" was invented by Dominik Vogel (Langweid, Germany), Christoph Heider (Rain am Lech, Germany) and Alexandru Dinca (Donauworth, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A collapsible self-supporting human and/or non-human cargo transport device for use with a rotorcraft, comprising: an inner cargo storage area for accommodating human and/or non-human cargo for transportation; a self-supporting skeletal frame, and collapsible cargo securing means mounted to the self-s...