ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,539,956, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Airbus Operations GmbH (Hamburg, Germany) and Airbus SAS (Blagnac, France).

"Thermal and acoustic insulation system for an aircraft" was invented by Christian Thomas (Hamburg, Germany), Alois Friedberger (Taufkirchen, Germany), Wolfgang Machunze (Taufkirchen, Germany), Andreas Helwig (Taufkirchen, Germany), Tassilo Witte (Hamburg, Germany) and Elmar Bonaccurso (Taufkirchen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A thermal and acoustic insulation system for an aircraft, to be received between an inner surface of an aircraft primary structure, such as an aircraft fuselage structure, and a surface o...