ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,397,929, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Airbus Operations Ltd. (Bristol, Great Britain).
"Method of fabricating an aircraft structural component" was invented by Stuart Bryant (Bristol, Great Britain) and Thomas Barnett (Bristol, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of fabricating an aircraft structural component for an aircraft includes providing a component precursor with a web and a flange. The web has a length, height shorter than the length, thickness shorter than the height, first end proximal to the flange and second end distal from the flange. A force is applied to the component precursor with a magnitude var...