US Patent Issued to Airbus Operations on Dec. 30 for "Wing for an aircraft and high lift assembly connection method" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,509,212, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Airbus Operations GmbH (Hamburg, Germany).

"Wing for an aircraft and high lift assembly connection method" was invented by Bernhard Schlipf (Hamburg, Germany) and Dennis Krey (Hamburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wing for an aircraft, a method of connecting a high lift assembly to the wing, and an aircraft including such a wing. The wing includes a main wing, a bracket and a high lift assembly. The high lift assembly includes a high lift body including a connection assembly movably connecting the high lift body to the main wing. The bracket includes a plurality of bracket connectio...