US Patent Issued to LIEBHERR-AEROSPACE LINDENBERG on June 17 for "System and method for detecting the position and/or the operating state of a movable component of an aircraft" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,805, issued on June 17, was assigned to LIEBHERR-AEROSPACE LINDENBERG GMBH (Lindenberg, Germany).

"System and method for detecting the position and/or the operating state of a movable component of an aircraft" was invented by Thomas Grom (Vilsingen, Germany), Tobias Hartmann (Buchenberg, Germany) and Christian Kohloffel (Amtzell, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a system for detecting the position and/or the operating state of a movable component of an aircraft, wherein the system has one movable component, two actuators, two motion sensors, one asymmetry sensor, one drive train, and one monito...