US Patent Issued to Airbus Canada on Aug. 4 for "System for automatic and remote closure and opening of a door designed for access to an aircraft fuselage, automatic closure method and automatic opening method" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,698,074, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Airbus Canada LP (Mirabel, Canada).

"System for automatic and remote closure and opening of a door designed for access to an aircraft fuselage, automatic closure method and automatic opening method" was invented by Beranger Chantal (Mirabel, Canada), Rainer Kloetergens (Mirabel, Canada) and Laurent Schmitt (Mirabel, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system comprises a support to be secured integrally on the fuselage of an aircraft, an elongate structure which can be displaced in relation to the support, between an extended position and a retracted position, a device for locking and unlockin...