ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,384,516, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Airbus Operations GmbH (Hamburg, Germany).

"Aircraft component support arrangement, high-lift system, aircraft wing and aircraft" was invented by Luc Andreani (Buchholz, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aircraft component support arrangement for connecting an aircraft component to an aircraft wing is disclosed including a component support and an attachment device for attaching the component support to a wing structure. The attachment device includes first to third connection means for connecting the component support to the wing structure, the first to third connection means each incl...