US Patent Issued to Airbus Operations on Dec. 16 for "Assembly of a longitudinal member of a wing and an engine pylon which are horizontally aligned relative to one another" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,497,181, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Airbus Operations SAS (Toulouse, France).

"Assembly of a longitudinal member of a wing and an engine pylon which are horizontally aligned relative to one another" was invented by 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 longitudinal member of an aircraft wing, where the longitudinal member has a contact wall which is penetrated by first bores, each passing through the contact wall parallel to a longitudinal direction, an engine pylon which is arranged at the end of the longitudinal member in the longitu...