US Patent Issued to The Boeing on April 14 for "Landing gear assemblies, rotorcraft and rotorcraft methods" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,600,466, issued on April 14, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Landing gear assemblies, rotorcraft and rotorcraft methods" was invented by Joseph G. Irwin (Landenberg, Pa.), Alex Schonfeld (Wallingford, Pa.) and Andrew Leung (Philadelphia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A landing gear assembly for rotorcraft includes a shock absorber, a ground support assembly and an airframe linkage assembly. The shock absorber includes a force sensor to detect a pressure of an incompressible fluid within the shock absorber and a temperature sensor to detect a temperature of the fluid. The ground support assembly is linked to the shock a...