US Patent Issued to AIRBUS HELICOPTERS on July 14 for "Aircraft with a transparent wall fixed to a structure via a shock protection system" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,523, issued on July 14, was assigned to AIRBUS HELICOPTERS (Marignane Cedex, France).

"Aircraft with a transparent wall fixed to a structure via a shock protection system" was invented by Olivier Bedus (Marignane Cedex, France), Sebastien Andral (Marignane Cedex, France) and Philippe Monboisse (Marignane Cedex, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aircraft provided with a transparent wall interposed between an internal environment located in the aircraft and an external environment, the transparent wall being fixed to a supporting structure of the aircraft by a fixing system, the transparent wall having an internal face facing th...