US Patent Issued to AIRBUS OPERATIONS on June 2 for "Aircraft assembly" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,643,672, issued on June 2, was assigned to AIRBUS OPERATIONS Ltd. (Bristol, Great Britain).

"Aircraft assembly" was invented by Samuel Phillips (Bristol, Great Britain) and Anthony Bryant (Bristol, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aircraft assembly is disclosed including a rib of a wing, an aperture in the rib, and a pipe assembly extending through the aperture. The pipe assembly includes a first rigid pipe section, a second rigid pipe section and a flexible pipe section between the first and second rigid pipe sections; and a fixture arrangement that couples one of the pipe sections to the wing rib. The flexible pipe sectio...