ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,425, issued on March 3, was assigned to Airbus Operations GmbH (Hamburg, Germany).
"Method for temporarily closing openings in aircraft parts" was invented by Marc Wesseloh (Hamburg, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for temporarily closing openings in an aircraft part during a manufacturing process by providing a first part that has a first opening and positioning a temporary closure member inside that first opening. The temporary closure member has an RFID tag that has stored on it a unique identification. At a later stage in the aircraft manufacturing process, a scanning device is used to scan for the RFID tag based ...