US Patent Issued to Cirrus Design on July 14 for "Intelligent ballistic parachute system that performs pre-activation and/or post-activation actions" (Idaho Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. RE50,950, issued on July 14, was assigned to Cirrus Design Corp. (Duluth, Minn.).

"Intelligent ballistic parachute system that performs pre-activation and/or post-activation actions" was invented by Hoyt Augustus Fleming III (Boise, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aircraft, the aircraft including a whole-aircraft ballistic parachute that is coupled to the aircraft. The aircraft determines if a pre-activation action needs to be performed before activation of the whole-aircraft ballistic parachute. The aircraft also receives a whole-aircraft ballistic parachute activation request. The aircraft then issues a command to perform the pre-...