US Patent Issued to ASCO INDUSTRIES on June 30 for "Actuation assembly for a trailing edge flap of an aircraft wing" (Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,668,351, issued on June 30, was assigned to ASCO INDUSTRIES NV (Zaventem, Belgium).

"Actuation assembly for a trailing edge flap of an aircraft wing" was invented by Bob Armand Henri Everaert (Ghent, Belgium), Dirk De Wit (Willebroek, Belgium) and Johan Francis Alfons Vervliet (Leuven, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Actuation assembly for a trailing edge flap of an aircraft wing, comprising: a base unit configured to be fixated to a main body of the aircraft wing; an intermediate unit movably connected to the base unit and configured to be hingeably connected to the flap at a leading edge of the flap about a first hinging axis ex...