ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,337,676, issued on June 24, was assigned to MONTAPLAST GMBH (Morsbach, Germany).
"Air guide control" was invented by Johannes Muller (Waldbrol, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to an air guide control system with a flap arrangement including flaps which can be rotatably inserted into a joining partner. An actuator drives a damper and a coupling rod transmits the torque of this driven damper to the remaining dampers of the damper arrangement. In the event of a flap fracture of at least one flap, a spring, locks the flap arrangement against further movement, so that error information is reported to the actuator...