US Patent Issued to Airbus Operations on June 30 for "Aircraft air duct pipe comprising at least one pipe coupling and method of manufacturing said pipe" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,196, issued on June 30, was assigned to Airbus Operations SAS (Toulouse, France).

"Aircraft air duct pipe comprising at least one pipe coupling and method of manufacturing said pipe" was invented by Simon Foucart-Gaudy (Toulouse, France), Vincent Delpy (Toulouse, France) and Gerard Millet (Toulouse, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pipe of an air duct including, from the interior toward the exterior, an internal layer, at least one insulating intermediate layer, an external layer and at least at one of its ends a pipe coupling distinct from the internal layer including a first end section that cooperates with the internal laye...