ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,397,899, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Airbus Operations SAS (Toulouse, France).

"Assembly for an aircraft comprising a wing and an engine pylon for coupling a propulsion system to said wing" was invented by Olivier Pautis (Toulouse, France), Pierre-Antoine Combes (Toulouse, France) and Marc De Nicola (Toulouse, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An assembly comprising a wing with a lower surface panel and an upper surface panel and an engine pylon comprising a primary structure fixed to the wing with a fixing base. The fixing base comprises fourth fixing yokes while the primary structure bears fourth fittings, the fourth fixing ...