US Patent Issued to Airbus Operations on July 1 for "Flap system for an aircraft and method of operating a flap fairing at an aircraft wing" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,377, issued on July 1, was assigned to Airbus Operations GmbH (Hamburg, Germany).

"Flap system for an aircraft and method of operating a flap fairing at an aircraft wing" was invented by Florian Lorenz (Hamburg, Germany) and Bernhard Schlipf (Hamburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A flap system for an aircraft comprises a wing structure, a trailing-edge and an attachment unit for movably coupling the trailing-edge movable to the wing structure. The attachment unit comprises an attachment mechanism and a cover element which at least partly encloses the attachment mechanism. The attachment unit comprises a drive element which i...