US Patent Issued to Airbus Operations on July 22 for "Aircraft sub-assembly manufacturing system and method" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,365,485, issued on July 22, was assigned to Airbus Operations Ltd. (Bristol, Great Britain).

"Aircraft sub-assembly manufacturing system and method" was invented by Robin Hardi (Bristol, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aircraft sub-assembly manufacturing system is arranged over multiple floors of a manufacturing facility. A production line of workstations is provided at locations at both a first floor and a second floor of the facility, each of the workstations being arranged for providing manufacturing steps for the aircraft sub-assembly. Elevator apparatus is arranged to transport the assembled aircraft sub-assembly bet...