US Patent Issued to Airbus Operations on Sept. 15 for "Fuselage frame" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,735,169, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Airbus Operations GmbH (Hamburg, Germany).

"Fuselage frame" was invented by Dimitri Orlov (Hamburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A frame for an aircraft fuselage including a primary frame segment and a secondary frame segment. The primary frame segment includes a primary arc with two primary end sections and includes a primary inner surface and a primary outer surface. The secondary frame segment includes a secondary arc with two secondary end sections and includes a secondary inner surface and a secondary outer surface. The primary frame segment and the secondary frame segment are ...