ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,540,638, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Airbus Operations SAS (Toulouse, France) and ATELIERS DE LA HAUTE GARONNE ETS AURIOL ET CIE SAS (Flourens, France).
"Blind type removable fixing device, assembly comprising at least one such fixing device and method of dismantling such a fixing device" was invented by Jean-Noel Laurent (Rochefort, France), Julien Bigot (Toulouse, France), Adrien Fouladoux (Saint-Herblain, France), Perig Le Henaff (Rochefort, France), Arnaud Maurice (Rochefort, France), Bertrand Jehenne (Flourens, France), Lucas Gutierrez (Flourens, France) and Francois Meric (Flourens, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fast...