ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,235, issued on June 23, was assigned to Airbus Operations GmbH (Hamburg, Germany).

"Load introduction system and method for manufacturing a load introduction system" was invented by Oliver Seack (Hamburg, Germany), Dort Daandels (Hamburg, Germany), Kathrin Stubbe (Hamburg, Germany) and Tobias Ender (Hamburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A load introduction system comprising an aerodynamic component having a skin section with an outer surface and a first protrusion, and an attachment unit for movably coupling the aerodynamic component to a base unit. The attachment unit is attached to the skin section of the aerodynamic comp...