US Patent Issued to The Boeing on Sept. 8 for "Height adjustment devices, systems including the same, and methods for creating vertical clearance between wings of adjacent aircraft" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,729,013, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Height adjustment devices, systems including the same, and methods for creating vertical clearance between wings of adjacent aircraft" was invented by Thomas Skyler Sartorius (San Luis Obispo, Calif.), Robert E. Grip (Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif.) and Eric Daniel Davidson (Long Beach, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Height adjustment devices can temporarily and selectively adjust a height of at least a first portion of a first aircraft while the first aircraft is engaged with the height adjustment device by tilting, lifting, and/or lowering the first aircr...