US Patent Issued to Airbus Operations, Airbus Operations S.L.U. on Jan. 13 for "Apparatuses and processes for working on a part" (American, Spanish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,521,868, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Airbus Operations GmbH (Hamburg, Germany) and Airbus Operations S.L.U. (Getafe, Spain).

"Apparatuses and processes for working on a part" was invented by Chace Fadlovich (Mukilteo, Wash.), Michael Woogerd (Mukilteo, Wash.), Eric Pospisil (Mukilteo, Wash.), Mike Grimstad (Mukilteo, Wash.), Joseph Berry (Mukilteo, Wash.) and Juan Francisco Garcia Amado (Getafe, Spain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for performing operations on a part, and in particular on the fuselage of an aircraft. The apparatus utilizes movable arches which carry an and effector and which move along a track fixed t...