ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,785, issued on June 17, was assigned to Airbus Operations GmbH (Hamburg, Germany).
"Aircraft flap system" was invented by Bernhard Schlipf (Hamburg, Germany) and Christoph Winkelmann (Hamburg, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aircraft wing including a flap system mounted at a leading or trailing edge of the wing and includes at least two movable flap devices spaced apart in a spanwise direction Y from each other, each movable flap device supported by at least one support station and driven about a hinge axis by at least one drive system. The flap system includes a synchronizing torque element connected to the movable flap de...