US Patent Issued to BOMBARDIER on June 30 for "Methods and systems for deploying adjacent trailing edge flaps" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,668,355, issued on June 30, was assigned to BOMBARDIER INC. (Dorval, Canada).

"Methods and systems for deploying adjacent trailing edge flaps" was invented by Iyad Akel (Laval, Canada), Dmitry Budnitsky (Ancaster, Canada), Howard Ian Smith (Niagara Falls, Canada) and Thomas Hanson (Ballwin, Mo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for deploying adjacent trailing edge flaps that are part of different flap assemblies of different stiffnesses are disclosed. An exemplary method comprises: deploying a first flap of a first flap assembly having a first stiffness by a first deployment amount and deploying a second flap adjacent th...