# Hovercraft Development Ltd — Patents explained on PatentBrief

Hovercraft Development Ltd has 1 landmark patent explained in plain English on PatentBrief.

- [How Hovercrafts Use Flexible Skirts to Ride on Air](https://patentbrief.org/patent/us/3321037/hovercraft-cockerell) — granted 1967
  This patent describes a gas-cushion vehicle, or hovercraft, that uses a specific arrangement of flexible walls to contain a cushion of pressurized gas and separate foreign matter from the escaping air.

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