US Patent Issued to AIRBUS on June 3 for "Method of producing a high-energy hydroformed structure from a 7xxx-series alloy" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,319,994, issued on June 3, was assigned to AIRBUS SAS (Blagnac, France).

"Method of producing a high-energy hydroformed structure from a 7xxx-series alloy" was invented by Philippe Meyer (Koblenz, Germany), Sunil Khosla (Koblenz, Germany), Achim Burger (Koblenz, Germany), Sabine Maria Spangel (Koblenz, Germany) and Andreas Harald Bach (Koblenz, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of producing an integrated monolithic aluminum structure, the method includes the steps of: (a) providing an aluminum alloy plate with a predetermined thickness of at least 38.1 mm, wherein the aluminum alloy plate is a 7xxx-series alloy provided in a...