US Patent Issued to The Boeing on March 3 for "Variable slat displacement using spanwise actuator" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,306, issued on March 3, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Variable slat displacement using spanwise actuator" was invented by Eric S. Kamila (Tukwila, Wash.), Ramon A. Burin (Seattle) and John A. Standley (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aircraft wing includes a fixed structure and a linear hydraulic slat actuator attached to the fixed structure. The linear hydraulic slat actuator is oriented spanwise along the aircraft wing. The aircraft wing also includes an actuator output link and a slat attached to the actuator output link. The aircraft wing also includes a bell-crank coupled to the linear hydraulic sla...