US Patent Issued to Airbus Operations on March 17 for "Fuselage for an aircraft or spacecraft, and aircraft or spacecraft" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,984, issued on March 17, was assigned to Airbus Operations GmbH (Hamburg, Germany).

"Fuselage for an aircraft or spacecraft, and aircraft or spacecraft" was invented by Matthias Hegenbart (Hamburg, Germany) and Hermann Benthien (Hamburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fuselage for an aircraft or spacecraft includes a first fuselage section having a support structure with a load bearing outer skin, and a second fuselage section having a non-load bearing outer skin and a space frame structure for supporting the non-load bearing outer skin, wherein the non-load bearing outer skin includes at least one skin area, which is conf...