ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,301, issued on March 3, was assigned to Airbus Operations GmbH (Hamburg, Germany).
"Coupling device for a connecting rod" was invented by Hermann Benthien (Hamburg, Germany) and Andreas Poppe (Hamburg, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A connecting rod coupling device for attaching a component to an aircraft fuselage and/or stiffening the fuselage has a first coupler, and a second coupler couplable to the first coupler. The first coupler has an elongate body with a first channel on a lateral surface along a first longitudinal axis. The second coupler has a hollow-cylindrical portion, which, on an inner face along a second longit...