US Patent Issued to THE BOEING on July 21 for "Panel assembly for converting passenger aircraft to cargo aircraft" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,486, issued on July 21, was assigned to THE BOEING COMPANY (Arlington, Va.).

"Panel assembly for converting passenger aircraft to cargo aircraft" was invented by Chunlei Liu (Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A panel assembly for an aircraft can include a composite material skin with a cargo opening sized to receive cargo into the fuselage of the aircraft and to remove the cargo from the fuselage of the aircraft. The panel assembly can include curved panel edge frames coupled with the outer skin and disposed on opposite lateral sides of the cargo opening in the outer skin. Upper and lower sill beams can be di...