ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,654,879, issued on June 16, was assigned to AIRBUS OPERATIONS (S.A.S.) (Toulouse, France).

"Assembly platform intended to manipulate at least one aircraft lower shell without deforming it with a view to assembly of an aircraft fuselage barrel" was invented by Jean-Marc Datas (Toulouse, France), Thomas Cartereau (Toulouse, France), Jacques Bouriquet (Toulouse, France), Andre Aquila (Blagnac, France), Nicolas Darbonville (Blagnac, France), Thomas Autret (Blagnac, France), Joel Barboule (Toulouse, France), Sebastien Bayonne (Toulouse, France), Patrick Guerin (Toulouse, France) and Sjoerd Van Der Veen (Toulouse, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark ...