US Patent Issued to AIRBUS OPERATIONS, AIRBUS OPERATIONS on Dec. 30 for "Aircraft wing with a moveable wing tip" (German, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,509,220, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to AIRBUS OPERATIONS Ltd. (Bristol, Great Britain) and AIRBUS OPERATIONS GmbH (Hamburg, Germany).

"Aircraft wing with a moveable wing tip" was invented by Thomas Wilson (Bristol, Great Britain), Theo Meyer (Hamburg, Germany) and Michael Wrightson (Hamburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aircraft wing is provided having a fixed wing with a gulled wing tip rotatably mounted at the tip thereof, the gulled wing tip extending below a wing plane defined by the end of the fixed wing such that the centre of gravity of the gulled wing tip is located below the wing plane. Lowering the centre of g...