ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,371,151, issued on July 29, was assigned to AIRBUS OPERATIONS Ltd. (Bristol, Great Britain).
"Flight control surface" was invented by Oliver Family (Bristol, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aircraft wing with a moveable leading edge device mounted towards the leading edge of the wing. The leading edge device is moveable between a first configuration, a second configuration and a third configuration. In the first configuration, the leading edge device is retracted fully within the wing profile. In the second configuration, a portion of a surface of the leading edge device is extended away from the wing profile and into the...