US Patent Issued to Airbus Operations on Jan. 27 for "Aircraft cabin portion, and aircraft having a fluid collector" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,175, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Airbus Operations GmbH (Hamburg, Germany).

"Aircraft cabin portion, and aircraft having a fluid collector" was invented by Alexander Weng (Hamburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aircraft cabin portion having a cabin device module which has an upper face, a fluid-guiding element located on the upper face of the cabin device module, and a fluid collector located at a lower end of the fluid-guiding element. The fluid collector may consist substantially of a flexible material which forms a lumen for draining a fluid, wherein the lumen has an entry opening located at the lower end of the...