Posts Tagged: airplane
EPA regulation of aircraft emissions could hurt green innovation
A study of the economic impacts of air quality regulations on American manufacturing plants between 1972 and 1993 conducted by the National Bureau of Economic Research found that the …
Airbus patents removable aircraft cabins, patent applications include wireless energy transmission
Airbus Group SE (EPA:AIR), based in Leiden, Netherlands, is a multinational corporation focused on the development of aerospace and defence technologies. Sales figures indicate that Airbus …
Lockheed Martin innovations include battlefield tech, DNA evidence collection
The Lockheed Martin Corporation does file quite a few of its technologies with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and last year earned 263 U.S. patents, …
Possibility of bomb in Russian plane crash will shift focus towards bomb detection tech
Given all of these issues with these conventional bomb detection methods, what are the innovations being developed in response? One Israeli explosive detection tech developer, Tracense Systems, …
Boeing announces first China plant, invents spacecraft and power generation tech
Over the past three months, Boeing has received 252 U.S. patents, a quarterly pace of innovation that would best last year’s results if maintained throughout the …
Sustainable, green aviation and the pursuit of fuel alternatives
Fuels derived from biomass are not the only option being pursued to solve the problem of switching away from petroleum-based fossil fuels, or at least getting more …
Understanding the black box and why it can be so difficult to locate
The earlier days of black box technology well behind us, the magnetic tape recording medium has since been replaced by solid state memory to record data. Today, …
Honeywell deepens its patent holdings in airport tech and voice recognition
Honeywell has its sights set squarely on airport innovation. For example, U.S. Patent Application No. 20150194060, titled Enhanced Awareness of Obstacle Proximity, would protect a method of …
Aviation industry looks to cut polluting emissions through alternative fuels and batteries
A lot of research and development into alternative fuels for aircraft has focused on biofuels, which has also been an area of focus of automakers. Last January, …
NASA innovates tech for fuel efficient air transportation
One area where NASA has been placing a fair amount of its research focus is in developing design features that allow for reductions in an aircraft’s …
Boeing Invents: The Pursuit of Safer Air Travel
A recent fire onboard a Boeing Dreamliner at London’s Heathrow Airport refocused concerns on the recently developed cruise liner, which was maligned with battery fire issues …
Apple Seeks Patents on Travel, Hotel and Fashion Apps
Earlier this week Apple, Inc. had three patent application publish on what most would consider strange, overbroad and/or dubious inventions. The patents largely follow the same …
