ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,509,214, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Airbus Operations GmbH (Hamburg, Germany).
"Wing for an aircraft" was invented by Bernhard Schlipf (Hamburg, Germany) and Oliver Seack (Hamburg, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A high lift assembly (7) including: a high lift body with a high lift structure (8) and an internal volume (22), and a connection assembly (10) extending through an aperture (18) in an outer skin (20) of a leading edge of a main wing (5), the connection assembly (10) includes an elongate track (16) and a first and second connectors (12, 14), the elongate track (16) is mounted to the main wing (5) and moves along a...