US Patent Issued to HYUNDAI MOTOR, KIA on March 24 for "Landing gear of aircraft and method for takeoff and landing using landing gear" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,577, issued on March 24, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea) and KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Landing gear of aircraft and method for takeoff and landing using landing gear" was invented by Choung Hyoung Kim (Anyang-si, South Korea) and Jung Hyun Lee (Gunpo-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A landing gear includes a wheel support portion connected to a fuselage of an aircraft, a wheel rotatably connected to the wheel support portion via a shaft, a stator mounted on the shaft, and a rotor mounted on the wheel spaced apart from the stator."

The patent was filed on April 23, 2024, under Applicat...