ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,304,659, issued on May 20, was assigned to AIRBUS OPERATIONS (S.A.S.) (Toulouse, France).
"System for handling a side shell of an aircraft with a view to assembling a fuselage barrel of the aircraft and method for assembling a fuselage barrel of an 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) and Sjoerd Van Der Veen (Toulouse, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Pate...