US Patent Issued to Airbus Operations (S.A.S.) on Jan. 27 for "Reduced-mass floating-nut system and method for assembling two parts using said system" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,092, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Airbus Operations (S.A.S.) (Toulouse, France).

"Reduced-mass floating-nut system and method for assembling two parts using said system" was invented by Emmanuel Collot (Toulouse, France), Frederic Goupil (Toulouse, France), Ghislain Viauvy (Toulouse, France) and Emma Abbouab (Toulouse, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A floating-nut system for assembling a part and a part, the part including an opening having an axis of revolution, the floating-nut system including at least one elastomer cage device and a nut device, the cage device including a cylinder to be introduced into an opening mad...