US Patent Issued to Airbus Operations on June 24 for "Engine pylon for fastening an aircraft engine" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,337,979, issued on June 24, was assigned to Airbus Operations SAS (Toulouse, France).

"Engine pylon for fastening an aircraft engine" was invented by Michael Berjot (Toulouse, France), Pierre-Antoine Combes (Toulouse, France), Marc De Nicola (Toulouse, France) and Jean-Baptiste Vignes (Toulouse, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An engine pylon has a structure for fastening an aircraft engine beneath a wing and has two lateral faces. The structure has a tunnel laterally passing through it, between and through the lateral faces, and the engine pylon has a spreader housed in the tunnel and fastened in an articulated manner to each late...