US Patent Issued to JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY, Kawasaki Jukogyo, MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES on March 3 for "Leading-edge high-lift device, wing, aircraft, and buffering member" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,307, issued on March 3, was assigned to JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY (Tokyo), Kawasaki Jukogyo K.K. (Hyogo, Japan) and MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES LTD. (Tokyo).

"Leading-edge high-lift device, wing, aircraft, and buffering member" was invented by Mitsuhiro Murayama (Tokyo), Tohru Hirai (Tokyo), Kazuomi Yamamoto (Tokyo), Masataka Kohzai (Tokyo), Yosuke Ueno (Hyogo, Japan), Kazuhide Isotani (Hyogo, Japan), Kenji Hayama (Hyogo, Japan) and Kensuke Hayashi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A leading-edge high-lift device is deployable and retractable from/into a fixed leading edge of a main wing of an aircraft and includes a sla...