US Patent Issued to Airbus Operations on Dec. 30 for "Assembly for reinforcing the fuselage of an aircraft when removing a removable panel" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,509,209, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Airbus Operations SAS (Toulouse, France).

"Assembly for reinforcing the fuselage of an aircraft when removing a removable panel" was invented by Patrick Lieven (Toulouse, France) and Anthony Mertes (Toulouse, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An assembly for reinforcing a fuselage of an aircraft, the aircraft including a fuselage including an opening and a removable panel received in the opening. The assembly including a first support fixed to an exterior face of the fuselage around and outside an opening in the fixed fuselage. A sub-assembly is to an exterior face of the removable panel an...