US Patent Issued to HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL on July 22 for "Control surface actuator assembly with gust lock" (Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,365,447, issued on July 22, was assigned to HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Control surface actuator assembly with gust lock" was invented by Joseph Wagner (Tempe, Ariz.), Zachary Brown (Tempe, Ariz.), Darrell Horner (Tempe, Ariz.), Kevin Gardner (Tempe, Ariz.) and Ronald Vaughan (Tempe, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An actuator assembly includes an actuator drive source and a gust lock. The actuator drive source is operable to supply an actuator drive torque to drive a component. The gust lock is movable between a locked position, in which rotation of the drive source is prevented, and an unlocked position, in wh...