US Patent Issued to United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force on Sept. 1 for "Apparatus for delivering torque struts to and removing torque struts from an aircraft landing gear" (Arkansas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,722,803, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio).

"Apparatus for delivering torque struts to and removing torque struts from an aircraft landing gear" was invented by Brian Ankney (Sherwood, Ark.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for positioning, aligning, installing and removing a torque strut on a main landing gear of an aircraft having aft tandem inline wheels. The apparatus is mobile and has a generally isosceles frustro-triangular platform with three castors 18. The platform has two isosceles sides which are tapered together t...