US Patent Issued to Honeywell International on June 17 for "Differential lock actuator systems and methods for moving flight control surface" (Czech Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,771, issued on June 17, was assigned to Honeywell International Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Differential lock actuator systems and methods for moving flight control surface" was invented by Antonin Skarolek (Brno, Czech Republic), Tomas Ripel (Brno, Czech Republic) and Michal Nozka (Brno, Czech Republic).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A differential actuator system for controlling a flight control surface is provided, which includes a first control lane subsystem, a second control lane subsystem, a differential subsystem and a differential lock subsystem. The differential subsystem includes a first gear set forming a first load path from...