ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,436, issued on July 21, was assigned to Airbus Operations Ltd. (Bristol, Great Britain) and Airbus Operations (SAS) (Toulouse, France).

"Holder for component of temperature sensing system" was invented by Mauricio Pereira Da Cunha (Orono, Maine), Robert J. Lad (Orono, Maine), Ian White (Bristol, Great Britain), Kurt Bruggemann (Bristol, Great Britain), Richard Downing (Bristol, Great Britain) and Maud Consola (Bristol, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A holder for a wireless relay device is disclosed including a rigid hollow arm member to be received in a groove in a torque tube spline of an aircraft wheel brake; and a su...