>In 2019, NASA patented a wing control system that combined both plasma and synthetic jet actuators, with the goal of creating actuators without any moving parts, and which were “essentially maintenance free.”

How about weight?

If there's no moving parts, the weight could be more, less or the same as the mechanisms that have been replaced.

But even if this system weighed the same, the increased reliability and maintenance free qualities ought to make their way to civilian aircraft design as well.