US Patent Issued to Airbus Operations on April 1 for "Primary structural assembly for an aircraft outside-skin heat exchanger, aircraft having a primary structural assembly, and method for attaching an aircraft outside-skin heat exchanger" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,263,948, issued on April 1, was assigned to Airbus Operations GmbH (Hamburg, Germany).

"Primary structural assembly for an aircraft outside-skin heat exchanger, aircraft having a primary structural assembly, and method for attaching an aircraft outside-skin heat exchanger" was invented by Markus Piesker (Hamburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A primary structural assembly for an aircraft outside-skin heat exchanger, the assembly comprising an outer-skin portion which defines an outer shape of the aircraft and forms a portion of a hull of the aircraft, wherein the outer-skin portion comprises at least one recess, a thermal-transf...