ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,479,563, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Airbus Operations GmbH (Hamburg, Germany).
"Method for producing a fuselage structural component for a triangle region, and integral fuselage structural component" was invented by Claus-Peter Gross (Hamburg, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for producing a fuselage structural component for a triangle region of an aircraft by: providing an integral board of a former material, wherein the board has an opening; and deforming at least one internal edge of the board that forms the opening to an internal flange; and deforming at least one external edge of the board to an external flang...