US Patent Issued to The Boeing on July 15 for "Mechanism for moving and maintaining position of an aircraft wing slat" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,610, issued on July 15, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Mechanism for moving and maintaining position of an aircraft wing slat" was invented by Samuel Block (Bothell, Wash.) and Ramon Burin (Lake Stevens, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mechanism for moving an aircraft wing slat between a retracted position and a deployed position includes a rib, an arm, a first bar and a second bar. The arm is disposed generally parallel with the rib and is configured for attachment with the wing slat. The rib, the arm and the first and second bars cooperate to form a four-bar linkage which is rotatable about connection poin...