ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,337,978, issued on June 24, was assigned to Airbus Operations SAS (Toulouse, France).

"Assembly for an aircraft comprising a wing and an engine pylon for coupling a propulsion system to said wing" was invented by Olivier Pautis (Toulouse, France), Michael Berjot (Toulouse, France), Pierre-Antoine Combes (Toulouse, France) and Paul-Adrien Taveau (Toulouse, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An assembly including a wing with a pressure-side panel and a suction-side panel through which two bores pass, an engine pylon including a blade with three bores and two fastening lugs, each of which has a sixth bore, two first shackles fastened bet...