US Patent Issued to Airbus Operations on June 23 for "Hatch locking device, air- or spacecraft hatch and air- or spacecraft" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,858, issued on June 23, was assigned to Airbus Operations GmbH (Hamburg, Germany).

"Hatch locking device, air- or spacecraft hatch and air- or spacecraft" was invented by Soren Ohle (Hamburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hatch locking device (100) for an aircraft or spacecraft hatch (10) including: a drivable spindle drive (101) with a longitudinal axis (X) and fixed relative to a hatch frame (11, 10) along the longitudinal axis (X); a locking bolt (102) driven by the drivable spindle drive (101) and guided along the longitudinal axis (X); and an adjustment bush assembly (110) mounted on a fuselage frame (1) and including...