US Patent Issued to JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY, Kawasaki Jukogyo, MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES on Aug. 12 for "Leading-edge high-lift device, wing, and aircraft" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,384,519, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY (Tokyo), Kawasaki Jukogyo K.K. (Kobe, Japan) and MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES LTD. (Tokyo).

"Leading-edge high-lift device, wing, and aircraft" was invented by Kazuomi Yamamoto (Tokyo), Mitsuhiro Murayama (Tokyo), Yuzuru Yokokawa (Tokyo), Masataka Kohzai (Tokyo), Kazuhide Isotani (Kobe, Japan), Yosuke Ueno (Kobe, Japan), Kenji Hayama (Kobe, Japan) and Kensuke Hayashi (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A leading-edge high-lift device according to an embodiment of the present invention is a leading-edge high-lift device that is deployable and retractab...