US Patent Issued to AIRBUS HELICOPTERS DEUTSCHLAND on July 14 for "Rotary wing aircraft with two engines and lateral engine fixations" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,524, issued on July 14, was assigned to AIRBUS HELICOPTERS DEUTSCHLAND GMBH (Donauworth, Germany).

"Rotary wing aircraft with two engines and lateral engine fixations" was invented by Axel Fink (Donauworth, Germany), Manuel Kempf (Donauworth, Germany), Philipp Walch (Rain am Lech, Germany) and Luca Specht (Petershausen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rotary wing aircraft comprising an upper primary skin that separates an aircraft interior region from an aircraft upper deck. The aircraft upper deck comprises engine compartments, a tail rotor drive shaft arranged therebetween, a firewall arrangement, and a central bracket tha...