The Daily Dose

This week, the US patent office issued 6,798 patents. Each patent adds a little something new to the human knowledge base. As we can’t list all six thousand, the PatentYogi team has selected the five most interesting patents. Boeing’s radically new technique to takeoff and land commercial aircrafts Patent number: US 20160229558 Engines on commercial passenger jets are sized for take-off conditions. This design condition leads to engine sizes that are larger than necessary for every other phase of the aircraft flight. The larger sized engine for take-off conditions results in higher purchase costs, higher cost of operation, creating additional drag to…

This story continues at The Next Web