US Patent Issued to Airbus Operations S.L.U. on Sept. 8 for "Assembly comprising a continuous structural element for aircraft and a fitting" (Spanish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,728,977, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Airbus Operations S.L.U. (Getafe, Spain).

"Assembly comprising a continuous structural element for aircraft and a fitting" was invented by Nuria Colmenarejo Matellano (Getafe, Spain), Esther Sola Casado (Getafe, Spain), David Martin Calvo (Getafe, Spain), Raul Gomez Vizcaino (Getafe, Spain), Jorge Ballestero Mendez (Getafe, Spain) and Ana Fernandez Ramirez (Getafe, Spain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An assembly with a continuous structural element for aircraft and a fitting. The continuous structural element has an outer flange, an inner flange and a web between the flanges. The inner flange ...