US Patent Issued to SIERRA NEVADA on Sept. 15 for "Aircraft design and technology" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,735,168, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to SIERRA NEVADA COMPANY LLC (Sparks, Nev.).

"Aircraft design and technology" was invented by Luc Van Bavel (Quebec City), Michael Derman (Bend, Ore.), Jeffrey A. Gamon (Wichita, Kan.), Ian Gilchrist (Bellevue, Wash.), James Donn Hethcock Jr. (Colleyville, Texas), Dieter Koehler (Powell Butte, Ore.), David W. Levy (Parker, Colo.), Michael Matarrese (Boulder, Colo.), Luke A. Thompson (Centennial, Colo.) and Robert David Wyatt (Fort Worth, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aircraft designed to provide sustained G forces, with a relatively high steady angle of attack maneuverability using les...