US Patent Issued to Airbus Operations on Oct. 7 for "Sealing device for covering an aperture in a wing part" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,810, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Airbus Operations GmbH (Hamburg, Germany).

"Sealing device for covering an aperture in a wing part" was invented by Bernhard Schlipf (Hamburg, Germany), Dennis Krey (Hamburg, Germany) and Atra Surya Gemilang (Hamburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sealing device for covering an aperture in a wing part of an aircraft. The sealing device has a cover plate covering at least a part of the aperture and having an outer surface delimited by a cover plate edge, and at least one holding device coupled with the cover plate. The at least one holding device having a resilient element, the at least...