ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,319,441, issued on June 3, was assigned to AIRBUS OPERATIONS (S.A.S.) (Toulouse, France) and Airbus Operations GmbH (Hamburg, Germany).

"Referential positioning device intended to position relative to each other at least one cabin floor grid and one side shell of an aircraft in order to assemble a fuselage barrel of the aircraft" was invented by Jean-Marc Datas (Toulouse, France), Thomas Cartereau (Toulouse, France), Jacques Bouriquet (Toulouse, France), Andre Aquila (Blagnac, France), Nicolas Darbonville (Blagnac, France), Thomas Autret (Blagnac, France), Joel Barboule (Toulouse, France), Sebastien Bayonne (Toulouse, France), Patrick Guerin (Toulouse, France), Sjoerd Van Der Veen (Tou...