US Patent Issued to Airbus, Airbus Operations on Sept. 30 for "Aircraft central wing box comprising beams pressed respectively against outer faces of the top and bottom panels of said box, each provided with at least one attachment passing through the top or bottom panel" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,428,127, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Airbus SAS (Blagnac, France) and Airbus Operations SAS (Toulouse, France).

"Aircraft central wing box comprising beams pressed respectively against outer faces of the top and bottom panels of said box, each provided with at least one attachment passing through the top or bottom panel" was invented by Frederic Passelande (Rochefort, France), Alain Her (Rochefort, France) and Obeida Manaa (Blagnac, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A central wing box comprising at least one first beam positioned against the outer face of a top panel of the central wing box and linked thereto, at least one s...