ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,698,832, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Airbus Operations GmbH (Hamburg, Germany).
"Sealing strip, control surface arrangement, aircraft wing and aircraft" was invented by Bernhard Schlipf (Hamburg, Germany) and Florian Lorenz (Hamburg, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sealing strip for sealing a gap between convexly curved aerodynamic surface elements of an aircraft such that the sealing strip has a convexly curved outer side, the sealing strip having a profile with a mid-seal section and welting sections, wherein the welting sections are arranged at end portions of the profile for fixing the sealing strip at the aerodynamic s...