ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,560, issued on July 14, was assigned to Premium Aerotec GmbH (Augsburg, Germany).
"Method for joining a window frame to a fuselage skin of an aircraft made of a fiber composite material" was invented by Jochen Scholler (Augsburg, Germany) and Michiel Vrijbergen (Augsburg, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for joining a window frame to a fuselage skin of an aircraft made of a fiber composite material, includes providing the window frame, making a window opening in the fuselage skin, arranging a curable connecting layer around the window opening, pressing the window frame onto the connecting layer, hardening the composite...