ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,246,818, issued on March 11, was assigned to Airbus Operations GmbH (Hamburg, Germany) and Airbus Operations S.L. (Getafe, Spain).
"Method for producing an armored wall in an aircraft and an aircraft section comprising an armored wall" was invented by Henning Scheel (Hamburg, Germany), Cesar Rodriguez Barbero (Getafe-Madrid, Spain) and Esteban Martino-Gonzalez (Getafe-Madrid, Spain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for producing an armored wall for an aircraft by determining an available thickness of the wall, an allowable areal mass of the wall, and an available space for a wall deformation due to ballistic impact. The method inc...