US Patent Issued to Airbus Operations on Sept. 9 for "Method for manufacturing an aircraft radome by assembling small-sized pieces of skin, aircraft radome and aircraft" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,978, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Airbus Operations SAS (Toulouse, France).

"Method for manufacturing an aircraft radome by assembling small-sized pieces of skin, aircraft radome and aircraft" was invented by Jacques Fournie (Toulouse, France), Christophe Bernus (Toulouse, France), Olivier Verstraete (Toulouse, France) and Thomas Berhault (Toulouse, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of assembling an aircraft radome and a radome comprising at least a first skin and a second skin arranged on two opposite faces of the same shell, the first skin and the second skin being formed from a first assembly of skin pieces and...