US Patent Issued to Airbus Operations on May 12 for "Aircraft structural component and a method of fabricating an aircraft structural component" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,623,767, issued on May 12, was assigned to Airbus Operations Ltd. (Filton, Great Britain).

"Aircraft structural component and a method of fabricating an aircraft structural component" was invented by Stuart Bryant (Bristol, Great Britain) and Thomas Barnett (Bristol, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aircraft structural component includes a flange having a non-planar side and a web having a first end extending from the non-planar side of the flange and a second end distal from the first end and from the non-planar side of the flange wherein the web has a non-planar shape that deviates from a plane normal to the non-planar si...