ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,246, issued on March 18, was assigned to Lilium eAircraft GmbH (Wessling, Germany).
"Wing assembly for an aircraft" was invented by Amar Bansal (Munich), Daniel Wiegand (Munich), Andreas Mobius (Wessling, Germany) and Sebastien Vermeiren (Munich).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a wing assembly, the wing assembly defining a direction of flow with respect to which the wing assembly is configured to create lift for an aircraft, comprising a main section configured to be mounted to a fuselage to extend from the fuselage in an extension direction of the wing; and a plurality of flap sections each with a body part, which are mo...