US Patent Issued to AIRBUS OPERATIONS on March 24 for "Aircraft assembly" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,612, issued on March 24, was assigned to AIRBUS OPERATIONS Ltd. (Bristol, Great Britain).

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

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aircraft assembly including: an aircraft structure; a pipe assembly; a fixture arrangement attached to the aircraft structure, the fixture arrangement contacting the pipe assembly via a curved bearing surface having curvature in two orthogonal directions; the curved bearing surface configured to enable the pipe assembly to rotate relative to the fixture arrangement about three perpendicular axe...