US Patent Issued to Textron Systems on Jan. 27 for "Extendable wing" (Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,183, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Textron Systems Corp. (Hunt Valley, Md.).

"Extendable wing" was invented by Richard C. Uskert (Monkton, Md.), Donovan Ray McClelland (Baltimore), Joshua Stephen Ruck (Baltimore) and Daniel Thomas Otradovec (Forest Hill, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aircraft wing apparatus includes a plurality of wing-skin sections, an extendable spar assembly, and a controller. The plurality of wing-skin sections includes a first wing-skin section and a second wing-skin section. The extendable spar assembly includes a first spar member coupled with the first wing-skin section and a second spar member c...