US Patent Issued to GULFSTREAM AEROSPACE on Nov. 3 for "Roller arrangement for a movable control surface of an aircraft" (Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,780,400, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to GULFSTREAM AEROSPACE Corp. (Savannah, Ga.).

"Roller arrangement for a movable control surface of an aircraft" was invented by Linga Rajagopal Movva (Savannah, Ga.), Anthony V Edwards (Savannah, Ga.) and Nicholas Meinhardt (Savannah, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A roller arrangement for a moveable control surface of an aircraft component includes a roller, a fitting, and an adapter sleeve. The roller component has a shaft and a wheel coupled to a roller end of the shaft, wherein the wheel is configured to rotate about a major longitudinal axis of the shaft. The fitting is couplable to the mo...