US Patent Issued to AIRBUS OPERATIONS on June 24 for "Flight control surface" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,337,962, issued on June 24, 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 an array of moveably flight control surfaces is disclosed. Each flight control surface includes a trailing edge with a moveable tab attached to the flight control surface trailing edge. A flight control system coupled to a flight control surface drive system which moves the flight control surfaces; a tab drive system which moves the moveable tabs and one or more aircraft angle of attack sensors. The flight control sy...