US Patent Issued to AIRBUS OPERATIONS on Sept. 30 for "Wing assemblies and structures for supporting wing tip devices" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,428,128, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to AIRBUS OPERATIONS Ltd. (Bristol, Great Britain).

"Wing assemblies and structures for supporting wing tip devices" was invented by Christopher Alan Bate (Bristol, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wing structure is disclosed having a first span portion including a depth that reduces in a spanwise outward direction, and a second span portion outboard of the first span portion and having a substantially uniform spanwise depth D3. The second span portion may be non-tapered, and may include parallel fore and aft spar portions. In some embodiments the non-tapered portion supports a mov...