US Patent Issued to Airbus Operations on Oct. 28 for "Trailing edge system for a wing of an aircraft, method of operating control surfaces of an aircraft, aircraft wing and aircraft" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,454,346, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Airbus Operations GmbH (Hamburg, Germany).

"Trailing edge system for a wing of an aircraft, method of operating control surfaces of an aircraft, aircraft wing and aircraft" was invented by Bernhard Schlipf (Hamburg, Germany) and Jan Haunert (Hamburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A trailing edge system for a wing of an aircraft comprises a flap device arrangement configured for being mounted at a trailing edge of an aircraft wing, wherein at least two movable flap devices of the flap device arrangement are spaced apart from each other. A torque element is connecting the movable flap de...