ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,958, issued on March 3, was assigned to Airbus Operations (S.A.S.) (Toulouse, France).
"Sleeve fastening system" was invented by Gerard Millet (Toulouse, France), Vincent Delpy (Toulouse, France), Simon Foucart-Gaudy (Toulouse, France) and Marc-Antoine Brocard (Toulouse, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sleeve fastening system fastened to a joist pierced with a hole and receiving two pipes and including a cylinder fitted into the hole of which each end receives a pipe, wherein the wall of the cylinder has cut into it at least one tunnel, a flange, each tunnel having openings that emerge on either side of the flange that has a ...