US Patent Issued to Airbus Operations on March 24 for "Set of pipes comprising an improved retaining system" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,584,571, issued on March 24, was assigned to Airbus Operations SAS (Toulouse, France).

"Set of pipes comprising an improved retaining system" was invented by Gerard Millet (Toulouse, France) and Vincent Delpy (Toulouse, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A set of pipes comprising two pipes, a sleeve into which the pipes are fitted, for each pipe, a clamping collar arranged around the sleeve and an anchoring element secured to the pipe and comprising a first fastener, for each clamping collar, a retaining element secured to the clamping collar and having a through-passage, and a tie passing through the through-passages and having, at ...