ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,395, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Airbus Operations Ltd. (Bristol, Great Britain).
"Aircraft assembly" was invented by Stephan Olexander Schneider (Bristol, Great Britain) and Benjamin Nash (Bristol, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aircraft assembly includes an aircraft structure, a flexible panel having a supported end fixedly attached to the aircraft structure, wherein the flexible panel is configured to bend about the supported end relative to the aircraft structure, a rigid stopper extending from and fixedly attached to the aircraft structure, wherein the rigid stopper is configured to restrict bending of th...