US Patent Issued to Airbus Operations on Jan. 27 for "Device for sealing a joint between a wing box and a central fuselage of an aircraft, corresponding sealing processes and corresponding aircraft" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,180, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Airbus Operations SAS (Toulouse, France).

"Device for sealing a joint between a wing box and a central fuselage of an aircraft, corresponding sealing processes and corresponding aircraft" was invented by Frederic Goupil (Toulouse, France), Ghislain Viauvy (Toulouse, France), Vincent Fauchille (Toulouse, France), Caroline Le (Toulouse, France), Francois Bignebat (Toulouse, France) and Nicolas Garres (Toulouse, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for sealing a joint between a wall of a wing box and a wall of a central fuselage of an aircraft, the device comprising at least one deformab...