US Patent Issued to Airbus Operations on Dec. 16 for "Aircraft structure part and method for providing an aircraft structure part" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,497,152, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Airbus Operations GmbH (Hamburg, Germany).

"Aircraft structure part and method for providing an aircraft structure part" was invented by Thomas Beumler (Jork, Germany) and Andreas Poppe (ReeBum, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aircraft structure part having a stacked arrangement of layers with the layers being one of an at least first doubler and a basic layer of the outer skin of an aircraft fuselage, with the first doubler and the basic layer being bonded by a first intermediate bond film layer to form a step-shaped configuration of the aircraft structure part, wherein the first dou...