US Patent Issued to Airbus Operations on June 16 for "Method for protecting a profile structural part of an aircraft against mechanical wear and/or mechanical impact" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,654,369, issued on June 16, was assigned to Airbus Operations GmbH (Hamburg, Germany).

"Method for protecting a profile structural part of an aircraft against mechanical wear and/or mechanical impact" was invented by Jose Martins (Hamburg, Germany), Ulf Loeding (Hamburg, Germany), Mathias Keanu Engelskirchen (Hamburg, Germany) and Frank Jaacks (Hamburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To manufacture a protected profile structural part of a fuselage of an aircraft, a sealant mold having a mold cavity having a cross-section that matches a portion of the profile structural part on which the surface to be protected is disposed is prep...