US Patent Issued to Airbus Operations on March 3 for "Aircraft beverage system" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,315, issued on March 3, was assigned to Airbus Operations GmbH (Hamburg, Germany).

"Aircraft beverage system" was invented by Ulrich Rieger (Hamburg, Germany), Sebastian Flashaar (Hamburg, Germany), Oliver Kiehne (Hamburg, Germany), Olivier Delaplanche (Hamburg, Germany), Patrick Timke (Hamburg, Germany) and Patrizia Sdun (Hamburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for providing a beverage in an aircraft, as well as a galley system comprising a first and second trolley, and an aircraft. The system comprises a first and second trolley, the second trolley detachably couplable to the first trolley via a coupling arrangemen...