ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,637,548, issued on May 26, was assigned to Airbus Defence and Space GmbH (Taufkirchen, Germany) and Airbus (S.A.S.) (Blagnac, France).

"Fiber composite structure and method for manufacturing a fiber composite structure" was invented by Christian Karch (Neubiberg, Germany) and Alois Friedberger (Taufkirchen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fiber composite structure includes a base structure being formed of a first fiber composite material that includes first fiber bundles embedded in a first matrix material, wherein the base structure includes an opening defined by first fiber bundles which include first sections and a second sect...