US Patent Issued to SAFRAN LANDING SYSTEMS on Aug. 18 for "Method for controlling an operating characteristic of a vehicle, such as the ground clearance" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,709,161, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to SAFRAN LANDING SYSTEMS (Velizy Villacoublay, France).

"Method for controlling an operating characteristic of a vehicle, such as the ground clearance" was invented by Andrew Ellis (Moissy-Cramayel, France) and Graeme Klim (Moissy-Cramayel, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method for controlling an operating characteristic (for example ground clearance or acceleration) of a vehicle (100) resting on a contact surface (200) by means of at least one landing gear (150) comprising means of actuating (160) adapted to vary a behaviour of the landing gear when the latter i...