US Patent Issued to AIRBUS OPERATIONS on July 29 for "Biscuit joint repair of continuous UD structural elements" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,370,765, issued on July 29, was assigned to AIRBUS OPERATIONS Ltd. (Bristol, Great Britain).

"Biscuit joint repair of continuous UD structural elements" was invented by John Martin Gaitonde (Bristol, Great Britain) and Chris Heaysman (Bristol, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of repairing a composite beam having a longitudinal direction including: removing material from a damaged area of the composite beam to form a cut out region; machining a plurality of elongate slots into the composite beam, the elongate slots each having a length in the longitudinal direction of the composite beam and spanning across the damaged...