ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,370,590, issued on July 29, was assigned to AIRBUS OPERATIONS SAS (Toulouse, France).

"Extrusion system including a press and an extrusion die with two mutually-perpendicular directions of movement" was invented by Bruno Arzel (Toulouse, France) and Alice Raquin (Toulouse, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An extrusion system including a press with a chassis, a slider mounted to be mobile vertically on the chassis and an actuating arrangement that moves the slider, a hollow container receiving a billet and having at one end an extrusion die and at the other end a piston mobile in translation horizontally in the container, and a movem...