US Patent Issued to Airbus Operations on Nov. 25 for "Method for assembling an aircraft central wing box involving a step of fastening the equipment to at least one assembly support situated outside the central wing box" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,479,566, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Airbus Operations SAS (Toulouse, France).

"Method for assembling an aircraft central wing box involving a step of fastening the equipment to at least one assembly support situated outside the central wing box" was invented by Christophe Rigaud (Toulouse, France) and Carole Beau (Toulouse, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for assembling a central wing box for an aircraft by assembling the upper and lower panels and the front and rear spars in order to obtain a main structure, fastening equipment to at least one assembly support positioned outside the main structure, inserting at le...