US Patent Issued to Airbus Operations on April 8 for "Freight container intended to be received in the cargo hold of an aircraft" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,269,673, issued on April 8, was assigned to Airbus Operations GmbH (Hamburg, Germany).

"Freight container intended to be received in the cargo hold of an aircraft" was invented by Ralf Schliwa (Hamburg, Germany), Thomas Grabow (Hamburg, Germany), Hermann Benthien (Hamburg, Germany), Lars Uwe Hansen (Hamburg, Germany), Dirk Meiranke (Hamburg, Germany), Lucas Gleixner (Hamburg, Germany) and Paul Wichtmann (Hamburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A freight container configured to fit in an aircraft cargo hold includes a floor element. First and second parallel side walls extend away from first and second opposite edges of the floor ...