US Patent Issued to AIRBUS OPERATIONS on June 24 for "Aircraft air inlet comprising at least two walls connected end to end by welding, method for the assembly of such an air inlet, and aircraft comprising at least one such air inlet" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,337,982, issued on June 24, was assigned to AIRBUS OPERATIONS SAS (Toulouse, France).

"Aircraft air inlet comprising at least two walls connected end to end by welding, method for the assembly of such an air inlet, and aircraft comprising at least one such air inlet" was invented by Anne-Laure Lafly (Toulouse, France) and Wolfgang Brochard (Toulouse, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An air inlet of a nacelle of an aircraft including a lip having a leading edge configured to split an air flow into interior and exterior air flows, the interior air flow entering the air inlet, an exterior panel, an intermediate panel, interposed betwee...