ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,371,148, issued on July 29, was assigned to Airbus Operations GmbH (Hamburg, Germany).

"Aerodynamic system for an aircraft" was invented by Dort Daandels (Hamburg, Germany), Florian Lorenz (Hamburg, Germany) and Sonke Wunderlich (Hamburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aerodynamic system for an aircraft. The aerodynamic system includes a first aerodynamic component configured to be movably coupled to a primary structure of the aircraft, a second aerodynamic component which is movably coupled to the first aerodynamic component and a first panel element coupled to the first aerodynamic component. The first panel element at least...