US Patent Issued to The Boeing on April 21 for "Aircraft wings and systems and methods for driving a slat of an aircraft wing" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,295, issued on April 21, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Aircraft wings and systems and methods for driving a slat of an aircraft wing" was invented by Samuel L. Block (Bothell, Wash.), Gregory Santini (Bothell, Wash.) and Ramon A. Burin (Lake Stevens, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for driving a slat of an aircraft wing includes a primary support, an auxiliary support, an actuator support, and an actuator. The primary support is rotationally coupled to the slat at a forward slat revolute joint for moving the slat between a retracted position and one or more extended positions. The auxiliary support ...