US Patent Issued to Airbus Operations on March 3 for "Method for bonding two fiber composite components with each other to form a fiber composite structure" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,011, issued on March 3, was assigned to Airbus Operations GmbH (Hamburg, Germany).

"Method for bonding two fiber composite components with each other to form a fiber composite structure" was invented by Norbert Heltsch (Hamburg, Germany) and Peter Linde (Hamburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for bonding two fiber composite components with each other to form a fiber composite structure includes integrating conductive fibers underneath a bonding surface of at least one of the two fiber composite components, each conductive fiber comprising a carbon fiber coated with an electrically insulating coating, the conductive ...