ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,337,984, issued on June 24, was assigned to Airbus Operations SAS (Toulouse, France).

"Acoustic panel comprising at least two cellular structures which are nested one inside the other, aircraft having at least one such acoustic panel" was invented by Manuel Teigne (Toulouse, France), Florian Ravise (Toulouse, France) and Laurent Caliman (Toulouse, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An acoustic panel including first and second cellular structures, the first cellular structure including a set-back portion to form a recess dimensioned to accommodate the second cellular structure such that first faces of the first and second cellular stru...