US Patent Issued to Airbus Operations on March 24 for "Movable cargo support having vertically biased wheel members" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,587, issued on March 24, was assigned to Airbus Operations GmbH (Hamburg, Germany).

"Movable cargo support having vertically biased wheel members" was invented by Dirk Meiranke (Hamburg, Germany), Ralf Schliwa (Hamburg, Germany), Hermann Benthien (Hamburg, Germany) and Andreas Poppe (Hamburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A movable cargo support for an aircraft cargo hold or passenger cabin includes a base. The base has a bottom surface with support(s) to support the base member on a floor surface of the cargo hold or passenger cabin. The base has wheel assemblies, each wheel assembly having at least one wheel rotatable abo...