ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,552,547, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to GOODRICH ACTUATION SYSTEMS Ltd. (Solihull, Great Britain).
"High lift skew system" was invented by Stephen Davies (Shrewsbury, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A skew sensing apparatus for detecting skew in at least one, or a plurality of control surfaces of a vehicle. The apparatus includes a tension cord which is held under tension between a) a first spring associated with a sensor and a sensor target and b) an opposing second spring. During normal operation, the apparatus is configured to maintain said sensor target in a first position relative to said sensor, thereby indicating ...