US Patent Issued to AIRBUS OPERATIONS on March 3 for "Aircraft wing with a wing tip device" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,305, issued on March 3, was assigned to AIRBUS OPERATIONS Ltd. (Filton, Great Britain).

"Aircraft wing with a wing tip device" was invented by Oliver Family (Filton, Great Britain), Keith Agmen (Filton, Great Britain), James Kirk (Filton, Great Britain), Robert Mills (Filton, Great Britain) and Thomas Wilson (Filton, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aircraft including a wing with a fixed wing portion and a wing tip device rotatably hingedly attached at a fixed wing portion outboard end. The wing includes a wing fold mechanism configured to actuate the wing tip device to rotate relative to the fixed wing portion to at l...