US Patent Issued to Airbus Operations on Jan. 27 for "Drive system for a lift control device of an aircraft, aircraft wing and aircraft" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,190, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Airbus Operations GmbH (Hamburg, Germany).

"Drive system for a lift control device of an aircraft, aircraft wing and aircraft" was invented by Bernhard Schlipf (Hamburg, Germany) and Dort Daandels (Hamburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drive system for a lift control device of an aircraft. The drive system has first and second connection assemblies. The first connection assembly comprises a first track comprising a first end coupled to the lift control device and a track curvature having a radius of curvature; a first guiding element to absorb side loads from the first track; a firs...