ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,654,880, issued on June 16, was assigned to Airbus Operations SAS (Toulouse, France) and Airbus Operations S.L. (Getafe, Spain).

"Method of manufacturing an aircraft window frame" was invented by Gunther Dressler (Immenstaad, Germany), Asuncion Butragueno-Martinez (Getafe, Spain), Rodolphe Trouve (Toulouse, France) and Dirk Feltin (Dresden, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of manufacturing an aircraft window frame, the frame having a first surface that has at least first and second faces extending all around the frame and connected by a curved junction zone, the frame being made of a composite material that includes fibers...