ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,397,921, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Airbus Operations SAS (Toulouse, France).
"Internal fixed structure for an aircraft nacelle" was invented by Laurent Cazeaux (Toulouse, France), Laurent Caliman (Toulouse, France) and Nicolas Charton (Toulouse, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An internal fixed structure for a nacelle, comprising end panels, an intermediate panel in the form of a half-cylinder between the end panels, splice plates between the intermediate panel and each end panel, wherein each splice plate is made up of a skin with an inner face fastened to the panels and at least one indentation protruding with respect to...