US Patent Issued to The Boeing on Dec. 16 for "Methods and brake systems to reduce brake wear during aircraft taxiing" (Washington Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,497,164, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Methods and brake systems to reduce brake wear during aircraft taxiing" was invented by Trent Daryl Miller (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods for reducing brake wear during aircraft taxiing are disclosed. As one example, a method comprises determining a sequence to apply brakes of a given set of landing gear during a brake event, wherein the determining includes selecting a warmer brake of the brakes to initially apply at a start of the brake event, and selecting a cooler brake of the brakes to subsequently apply when the warmer brake is released d...