US Patent Issued to Airbus Operations on Feb. 17 for "Locking arrangement for connecting and interlocking struts at a node within a framework" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,553,458, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Airbus Operations GmbH (Hamburg, Germany).

"Locking arrangement for connecting and interlocking struts at a node within a framework" was invented by Hermann Benthien (Hamburg, Germany) and Andreas Poppe (Hamburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A locking arrangement for connecting and interlocking rods at a node within a framework includes connection rods and a central node bearing to be engaged from different directions by each of the connection rods at respective mounting ports through plugging each connection rod onto a respective mounting port. The central node bearing is configured ...