ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,286,228, issued on April 29, was assigned to Airbus Operations GmbH (Hamburg, Germany).
"Actuator arrangement for a wing assembly of an aircraft" was invented by Luc Andreani (Hamburg, Germany) and Florian Lorenz (Hamburg, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A actuator arrangement is disclosed in which the high-lift device support that supports and guides movement of a high-lift device, such as a flap, is in axial alignment with a control actuator assembly that controls one or more control surfaces. This allows a single support fairing to be sufficient for covering both the track member and the control actuator assembly and allowing fo...