ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,479,572, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to CLAVERHAM Ltd. (Solihull, Great Britain).

"Actuation system" was invented by Paul Brewer (Bristol, Great Britain), Reg Raval (Bristol, Great Britain) and Andrew Miller (Bristol, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An actuation system for an aircraft control surface. The actuation system may include a rotary driver and three or more actuator modules, and each actuator module may be connected to the rotary driver such that the three or more actuator modules are configured to drive rotation of the rotary driver in combination."

The patent was filed on Jan. 13, 2022, under Application No....