US Patent Issued to Airbus Operations on Aug. 25 for "Deformable sealing plug and process for plugging a cavity using such a sealing plug" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,716,491, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Airbus Operations SAS (Toulouse, France).

"Deformable sealing plug and process for plugging a cavity using such a sealing plug" was invented by Frederic Goupil (Toulouse, France), Ghislain Viauvy (Toulouse, France), Vincent Fauchille (Toulouse, France), Caroline Le (Toulouse, France), Francois Bignebat (Toulouse, France), Nicolas Garres (Toulouse, France), Adrien Gelle (Toulouse, France) and Antoine Mercier (Toulouse, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sealing plug for leaktightly plugging a cavity. The sealing plug comprises an incompressibly deformable envelope delimiting a hollow intern...