US Patent Issued to The Boeing on Oct. 7 for "Flap support systems and methods for a wing of an aircraft" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,811, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Flap support systems and methods for a wing of an aircraft" was invented by Samuel Block (Bothell, Wash.), Ryan Joseph Cazin (Lynnwood, Wash.) and Kevin Tsai (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and a method include a crank pivotally coupled to a bracket of a main body of a wing of an aircraft. A drive link is pivotally coupled to the crank. A flap link is pivotally coupled to a carrier beam extending from a flap moveably coupled to the main body of the wing. A rocker bracket is pivotally coupled to the flap link and the drive link."

The paten...