US Patent Issued to TowFLEXX MilTech on Feb. 10 for "Systems and methods for autonomous aircraft capturing, lifting, and pushback" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,434, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to TowFLEXX MilTech Inc. (New Castle, Del.).

"Systems and methods for autonomous aircraft capturing, lifting, and pushback" was invented by Axel Schickling (Visbek, Germany) and Tobias Strobl (Las Vegas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aircraft tow vehicle comprises a turntable lifting unit configured to automatically rotate and lift for attachment to a nose landing gear of an aircraft. A gate coupled to the turntable lifting unit automatically unlocks, opens to receive the nose landing gear, closes to secure the nose landing gear, and locks. A sensor system detects the nose landing gear. A contr...