US Patent Issued to Airbus Operations on July 21 for "Hydraulic actuator" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,180, issued on July 21, was assigned to Airbus Operations Ltd. (Bristol, Great Britain).

"Hydraulic actuator" was invented by David Williams (Bristol, Great Britain) and Sean Kerr (Bristol, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hydraulic actuator for a hydraulic actuation system of an aircraft includes a housing defining a cavity, a piston dividing the cavity into extension and retraction chambers and movable relative to the housing to increase volume of one chamber and decrease volume of another of the chambers. A bypass includes first and second bypass ports and a connecting bypass line, and first and second chamber ports ...