ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,365,441, issued on July 22, was assigned to AIRBUS OPERATIONS Ltd. (Bristol, Great Britain).
"Spoiler" was invented by Denys Custance (Bristol, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aircraft wing including a wing structure supporting a wing cover having an outer aerodynamic surface, and a pop-up spoiler unit including an actuation mechanism and a spoiler coupled to the actuation mechanism. The spoiler is moveable by the actuation mechanism to deploy through an aperture in the wing cover. The pop-up spoiler unit is mounted to the wing structure to be substantially isolated from wing bending deflections. The wing structure has a ...