US Patent Issued to Airbus Operations on May 6 for "Aircraft floor comprising a sealing tarpaulin, and aircraft comprising said floor" (French Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,291,320, issued on May 6, was assigned to Airbus Operations SAS (Toulouse, France).

"Aircraft floor comprising a sealing tarpaulin, and aircraft comprising said floor" was invented by Sebastien Pellizzon (Toulouse, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aircraft floor including a structure, a deck attached to the structure, and first and second sealing barriers superposed at least in line with a protection zone, the deck being configured to form the first sealing barrier at least in line with the protection zone. The second sealing barrier includes a sealing tarpaulin interposed between the deck and the structure and having several rei...