US Patent Issued to Airbus Operations on March 4 for "Aircraft fuselage and module for absorbing crash energy in a lower deck, used for transporting passengers, of an aircraft" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,240,586, issued on March 4, was assigned to Airbus Operations GmbH (Hamburg, Germany).

"Aircraft fuselage and module for absorbing crash energy in a lower deck, used for transporting passengers, of an aircraft" was invented by Olaf Bischof (Butjadingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A module an aircraft fuselage includes a support device including a lower end for connection to a fuselage structure in a lower deck of the fuselage, an upper end for connection to an intermediate floor in the fuselage, and an energy absorption element between the upper end and the lower end. A wall panel is connected to the support device and extend...